Today after an update of avast definitions NO browsers will work.
Anyone else have this problem?

I shut off their WEB surveillance for now and am using Microsoft's
Security Essentials for now.

On 4/11/2011 4:02 PM, Roy wrote:
> Today after an update of avast definitions NO browsers will work.
> Anyone else have this problem?
>
> I shut off their WEB surveillance for now and am using Microsoft's
> Security Essentials for now.

Nope! XP and Windows 7 with Maxthon 3 and IE7 are working just fine.
--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v3.0
Centrino Core2 Duo 2GHz - 1.5GB - Windows 7

On 4/11/2011 4:02 PM, Roy wrote:
> Today after an update of avast definitions NO browsers will work.
> Anyone else have this problem?
>
> I shut off their WEB surveillance for now and am using Microsoft's
> Security Essentials for now.
Nope. Works fine for me.

On Apr 12, 8:05*am, Alias <a...@maskedandanonymous.com. nval d> wrote:
> On 04/11/2011 11:02 PM, Roy wrote:
>
> > Today after an update of avast definitions NO browsers will work.
> > Anyone else have this problem?
>
> > I shut off their WEB surveillance for now and am using Microsoft's
> > Security Essentials for now.
>
> If you've got both running with real time protection enabled, no wonder
> you're having problems. Uninstall that piece of **** that MS says is
> essential and you should go back to being able to surf with no problems.
> If you don't have both running with real time protection, you're
> probably infected.
>
> --
> Alias

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I didn't have both running. Anyway after the new definitions came in
this morning everything was okay. This is not the first time that
definitions have been flawed but over all avast has been great. The
last errors cited "frames" in browsers being in error and of course
none of the browsers would run.

Scanned the whole computer with multiple anti-virus and anti-malware
pgms and everything came up clean.
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"Roy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:03277fe7-a739-4e2e-b958-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Today after an update of avast definitions NO browsers will work.
> Anyone else have this problem?
>
> I shut off their WEB surveillance for now and am using Microsoft's
> Security Essentials for now.

It was a rogue definition update that classified something like 90% of
the websites out there as malicious. They caught it a couple of hours
later and released another update that corrected the problem, so all
should be well now if you want to switch back.

--
Zaphod

Arthur: All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's
something big and sinister going on in the world.
Slartibartfast: No, that's perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the
universe gets that.

On Apr 12, 1:42*pm, "Zaphod Beeblebrox"
<Zaphod.Arisztid.Beebleb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Roy" <wila...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:03277fe7-a739-4e2e-b958-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> > Today after an update of avast definitions NO browsers will work.
> > Anyone else have this problem?
>
> > I shut off their WEB surveillance for now and am using Microsoft's
> > Security Essentials for now.
>
> It was a rogue definition update that classified something like 90% of
> the websites out there as malicious. *They caught it a couple of hours
> later and released another update that corrected the problem, so all
> should be well now if you want to switch back.
>
> --
> Zaphod
>
> Arthur: All my life I've had this strange feeling that there's
> something big and sinister going on in the world.
> Slartibartfast: No, that's perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the
> universe gets that.

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Thanks, I've switched back and retired MSE for awhile in case I need
it.
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