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Jeffrey Kaplan
I have a Compact F730us laptop. It came with Vista Home Premium on it.
For work purposes, a few weeks ago I upgraded it to Ultimate via
Windows Anytime Upgrade in order to get the disk encryption features,
which are in use on selected directory trees. Last week I updated to
SP1. I was using Avast! Home Edition v4.7 as my antivirus with no
problems.
Due to some unrelated issues with the firewall I was using on my XP
system, I installed a new security suite on my XP system and a
different suite on the Vista system, in order to do a side-by-side
comparison, with the intent of buying the one I like best and
installing it on both.
I installed ESET's Smart Security suite (NOD32 AV +firewall) onto my
Vista machine. It demanded that I uninstall my current security
(av/firewall) first, so I uninstalled Avast and it disabled the Windows
Firewall for me. And now I have no AV at all.
The antivirus component of Smart Security failed to start. Figuring
the program was crap, I removed it and reinstalled Avast. Avast fails
to start, claiming an RCP (or was it RPC?) error. Its help suggested I
do WindowsUpdate to make sure I'm up-to-date, I did and I am. It
suggested that I check the Services to make sure that Avast's services
are started and if not, to start them. One wasn't, and trying to start
it generated the same error.
So I uninstalled Avast and installed Kaspersky Internet Security (which
I had already installed on my XP system and its running fine there) and
that's also failing on the AV side, but in such a way that I'm not sure
that the firewall is properly active, either.
I rebooted the machine after each uninstall and after each install.
From an unrelated question, Kaspersky said that SuperAdBlocker is
incompatible with their software, and it is installed. I disabled it
from running with Windows and rebooted, and the problem persists.
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Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org
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Peter's Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord, #107.
Even though I don't really care because I plan on living forever, I
will hire engineers who are able to build me a fortress sturdy enough
that, if I am slain, it won't tumble to the ground for no good
structural reason.
For work purposes, a few weeks ago I upgraded it to Ultimate via
Windows Anytime Upgrade in order to get the disk encryption features,
which are in use on selected directory trees. Last week I updated to
SP1. I was using Avast! Home Edition v4.7 as my antivirus with no
problems.
Due to some unrelated issues with the firewall I was using on my XP
system, I installed a new security suite on my XP system and a
different suite on the Vista system, in order to do a side-by-side
comparison, with the intent of buying the one I like best and
installing it on both.
I installed ESET's Smart Security suite (NOD32 AV +firewall) onto my
Vista machine. It demanded that I uninstall my current security
(av/firewall) first, so I uninstalled Avast and it disabled the Windows
Firewall for me. And now I have no AV at all.
The antivirus component of Smart Security failed to start. Figuring
the program was crap, I removed it and reinstalled Avast. Avast fails
to start, claiming an RCP (or was it RPC?) error. Its help suggested I
do WindowsUpdate to make sure I'm up-to-date, I did and I am. It
suggested that I check the Services to make sure that Avast's services
are started and if not, to start them. One wasn't, and trying to start
it generated the same error.
So I uninstalled Avast and installed Kaspersky Internet Security (which
I had already installed on my XP system and its running fine there) and
that's also failing on the AV side, but in such a way that I'm not sure
that the firewall is properly active, either.
I rebooted the machine after each uninstall and after each install.
From an unrelated question, Kaspersky said that SuperAdBlocker is
incompatible with their software, and it is installed. I disabled it
from running with Windows and rebooted, and the problem persists.
--
Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org
The from userid is killfiled Send personal mail to gordol
Peter's Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord, #107.
Even though I don't really care because I plan on living forever, I
will hire engineers who are able to build me a fortress sturdy enough
that, if I am slain, it won't tumble to the ground for no good
structural reason.