Re: Avast! causes BSOD (a known problem)

On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 13:03:35 -0700 (PDT), [email protected] wrote:

>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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I got rid of all that antivirus/antimalware junk by running the
freebie Time Freeze for the last year or so.

It puts your C: in virtual mode wherein nothing "sticks" to your C:
after rebooting.

http://www.toolwiz.com/lead/toolwiz_time_freeze.php

click on the dots at the far right on the screen.

As far as I'm concerned, this is a GREAT program.  Totally non
intrusive and it WORKS!  So much for those intrusive/expensive
p.i.t.a. antivirus/malware proggies.

The only "con" is that you will sometimes forget and make changes to
bookmarks, etc., while in VM and find later that they didn't  "stick"
to the C:. That's easily fixed.  I save to another external drive.  If
needed for C:, such as bookmarks, I again reboot without Time Freeze
running and save the wanted file to C:.  Afterwards, activate Time
Freeze again.  It's simple as heck.

I love the KISS principle: Keep It Simple, Stupid!