Re: Avast! causes BSOD (a known problem)

On Thursday, October 31, 2013 at 4:21:56 AM UTC-4, RayLopez99 wrote:
> Avast! Freeware is a problem that causes in Windows 7 Professional, Service Pack 1, a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) "BlueScreen" specifically the page memory error "PFN_LIST_CORRUPT".  The problem seems to go away when I switched to AVG AntiVirus Free Edition.
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> The BSOD problem occurs only when you run Avast! but not Malwarebytes Anti-Malware nor AVG.
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> What is weird is that Avast! 8 worked fine until today--it worked for about a year--then, coincidentally (?) when I went to Microsoft's site to check for updates after Windows SP1, there was a link, that I did NOT click, that required ActiveX, and only ran in Windows Explorer, to give you the list of updates after SP1 (not install the updates, just give you the list).
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