Avast definitions

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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.
 
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.
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Nope! XP and Windows 7 with Maxthon 3 and IE7 are working just fine.
 
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.
Click to expand...
Nope. Works fine for me.
 
If you've got both running with real time protection enabled, no wonder
you're having problems. Uninstall that piece of shit 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.
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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 said:
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.
Click to expand...

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.
 
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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