Avast AV Scanner
Feb 13, 2010
Not sure where to post this so here goes:
Can anyone comment on whether they think an Avast's AV scanner is any good.
I just got finished fixing a friends 2 month old Vista laptop that wouldn't
start up. I managed to boot it into `the last known good configuration' then
ran CCleaner, MBAM, SAS and Spybot. WU's were downlevel.
Just seems like with Avast running on this machine things got pretty screwed
up to the point where it wouldn't start normally at all. I don't think
Windows Defender was invoked either but it is now.
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Mar 23, 2008
My father and brother both use internet mail and when they send any emails on to me in Vista mail I don't get the attachments (one was a .wmv ext) As far as I know I have checked/unchecked ALL the correct boxes in the mail options and my Avast online scanner settings and still I don't get the pictures intended or the attachments. I have removed Norton, checked my firewall settings and still nothing!
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Apr 19, 2008
my windows isnt vista,is't XP,but i didnt find the right community for it so i decided to post here..if somebody knows,please answer me,it's important for me and my pc...READ IT I IMPLORE! today i was seeing some photos on google images..everyone know that on google the images are little,then we gotta click the photos to enlarge them...well i clicked one and as usual,under the image that appears,there's the site where it came from..when the page loaded,the following message appeared: "welcome to..." (i forgot the name of the site) so i just clicked ok...right after,avast antivirus found a virus...and on the message shown was telling me to desconnect...well i clicked 'desconnect' and then i closed the web page....i ran the antivirus on my pc and avast found no more viruses, but i don't know if the virus is outta my pc..what does the command 'desconnect' mean on the avast message???
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Jul 31, 2009
Not sure which newsgroup I should be using. Hope this is the right one. I have an avast icon in the Notification area. Each time it completed an virus data base update, it would pop up and make a verbal announcement. It is quite annoying, and sometimes disruptive. I tried to hide it by : right click task bar > Properties > Notification Area > Customize > select Hide on avast! ( both ). Won't work. Still shows up for an announcement.
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Mar 29, 2008
Post in reply to: kplumm Windows Firewall is fine!! Remove Norton ; it is a resource hog! Above is a link to Avast Free 4 Home Anti-Virus It is low resource using, free and Vista 32bit and 64bit compatible. For Spyware removal, use the above link to ???Spybot Search & Destroy 1.5.2? Download it, install it, update it, immunize your system and scan your System with it. For a non-scanning, but running the background, Program to STOP Spyware being downloaded to your Computer, use SpywareBlaster 4, available at the above link.
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Mar 23, 2008
Is it valid to install 2 antivirus instead of one? in this specific case AVG and AVAST, will they work well together? or will inhibit?
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Aug 2, 2008
I'm a newbi on this board this is my first post. I just recently upgraded to a Windows Vista Home 64 bit. My old system was Windows xp. I found this board as I was trying to get the Norton security that came on my pc to uninstall. The info on this board is priceless. I was able to get rid of the Norton and have now installed AVAST. My question is should I also run COMODO firewall or just use the Vista firewall. And if I run the Comodo should I disarm the VF. Again many thanks on the Norton issue, I was pleased to find out that I was not the only one who could not uninstall that pos.
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Jan 5, 2010
I have been trying to install avast on my PC but keeps getting an error message that the set up process cannot be completed. Server responce 204? can someone please help.
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May 2, 2007
Avast Update History Page:Fixed a vulnerability in TAR unpacker Improvements in various unpackers (winexec, installer, CAB, NTFS Streams) Boot-time scanner now functional even with USB keyboards Speed improvements in the Outlook plugin (Windows XP+) Web Shield: compatibility improvements Internet Mail provider: improvements on Windows Vista CAB unpacker now working in boot-time scan RAR unpacker modified so that it is now more tolerant to certain corrupted archives (issue reported by Thierry Zoller of n.runs AG) Professional Edition: scheduled scan progress icon now accessible even in Windows Vista Windows 9x/ME: fix in the Mail Protection Wizard (related to Mozilla Thunderbird accounts) Fixed a bug in the scan area selection dialog in Windows NT/2000 Optimizations in the updater Removed mail heuristics false alarm (related to TNEF attachments) Enjoy,Shawn
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Jun 13, 2009
Avast Antivirus Home Edition OR Avira AntiVir Personal?
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Jun 8, 2009
i just installed comodo firewall and avast for my antivirus options as i heard both work very well...however each time i try to look into control panel to test that everything is up to date, it just freezes on me, does not open at all??? shall i uninstall avast and use another anti virus protection
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Jun 16, 2009
It hasn't automatically updated its JVS signatures since I installed the new service pack on May 27. I can still manually update, but miss the convenience of auto. I checked my Windows Firewall settings and created an exception for Avast. I have performed a repair installation of Avast and have even renewed my license key early. Is there some kind of incompatibility between Vista SP2 and Avast that I don't know about?
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Feb 6, 2009
I have Vista Home Premium 32 bit and just installed a new Lexmark x4650 all-in-one. I can print perfectly when it is connected wirelessly (through the printer's internal connection to the network), but it won't recognize there is a scanner on it. If I connect it via USB, it works. I have tried disabling both the firewall (McAfee and Windows) and the wireless router. I can't see to find anyone who can print but not scan over the network.
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Oct 3, 2009
First I have a Gateway DX 4300 05 and one of my printer is a Brother MFC 7740N. This is a muilti-function machine. My husband's computer is a Dell E 310. Now, I tried to scan a photo on the Brother. I set it to scan to PC. So far, so good. (I've used this many times)But it didn't pop up on my pc screen. It popped up on my husbands screen.
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Sep 27, 2009
the xp scanner and camer wizard and i cant get my head around the new vista photo gallery & automatic scanner. all i want to be able to do is once i scan in a photo, is resize it to fit te page, but i cant seem to do this with vista - the xp scanner had a preview button which you could then just click to fit the screen
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Aug 21, 2009
I have downloaded Epson's Vista driver for my Epson 1660 scanner and carefully followed the instructions to install it. When I plug my scanner in, the Vista wizard offers to look for drivers but responds as follows: "Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it".
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Apr 18, 2008
Had to upgrade to a new PC, and most every new PC comes with Vista pre-installed, no options for XP. I try hooking up my 2 year old scanner - no Vista driver. I try hooking up a webcam a friend gave me - no Vista driver. So the whole purpose of upgrading to Vista was so I could go out and buy all new hardware!! This will be my last PC with a microsoft OS.
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May 26, 2008
My Canoscan lide 35 worked fine on my XP machine. Now attached to my new vistamachine it is not working. I went to Canon and downloaded files to delete the old driver, install a new Vista driver, and install a new Canoscan Toolbox for Vista. I ran the driver deleter then the new driver .Exe file. I saw a few seconds of a file unzipping and then it was done. I could not tell if it loaded a new driver or not.
Still, does not work. I have unplugged and replugged the USB connection, changed the USB location, and still it does not work. I get two error messages; the first says "Cannot communicate with scanner. Cable may be disconnected (it is not). Check Status. Scanner Driver will be closed". When I close that message box I get "Unable to open TWAIN source, please check connection then restart Toolbox".
When I check the control panel, hardware. scanners and cameras, it is listed but in Properties it reads "unavailable". When I look under Device Manager, Imaging Devices it lists the Canoscan Lide35, and the properties it says "this device is working properly". I rebooted numerous times as I tried the various functions...
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Apr 13, 2008
I just installed a new computer with Vista Office and my HP 6110 officejet all-in-one which was working fine with XP prints from the computer, copies from the glass bed and faxes. BUT, it will NOT scan. When I push on the scan button it starts and makes noise like it is going to start. When I go to devices on the control panel it says the 6100 is working. HP no longer offers help on this machine. I have unplugged everything and did it again, all to no avail.
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Jun 3, 2008
when i go into photo gallery import from scanner, i select my scanner, press import nothing happens.
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Jun 8, 2008
Just thought I'd pass along some info I came across after setting up my newest 64 bit machine and connecting an older but definitely not outdated Epson Perfection scanner. I really love this scanner and it's auto-restoration features for older photos, so I was not willing to give it up. I found the following website with instructions for finding the correct drivers. Nafcom's Crap Blog!: Epson Perfection 2480 Photo: Vista X64 drivers work in Windows XP X64!
Apparently, Epson built support for x64, but hid the drivers within the installer for 32 bit systems. No search on any version of their support website shows driver downloads under 64 bit. I did what was described in that article, and have my scanner working beautifully on Vista x64. I can say that I downloaded drivers both from the European site as well as the U.S. site. The driver file each installs is no different, but the scan utility is a slightly different version. I went with the U.S. version in the end, it being what looks like a higher version number (3.04a instead of 3.0u... hard to tell if there's any real difference, as there was no language issues or anything).
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Mar 23, 2008
After many hours online with computer techs, it has been determined that my Dell AIO964 will not scan with my version of Home Premium and I will have to upgrade to Vista Ultimate for my printer / scanner to work. Is this true? I don't want to outlay this money if my printer scanner still will not work. Also, any scanners out there that work with Vista Premium or Ultimate that is not too costly?
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Apr 20, 2010
I have been trying to burn a clutch of photographs to a cd for the first time on my Dell Laptop using Vista. I am using old cds (CD-RW) that I know are free and I have been using them to transfer photographs from an older PC so I know that laptop is able to read the cds. I have had to use the old PC to scan the photographs as my scanner is not supported by Vista.
However, when I come to burn the photographs I get a message that windows cannot complete the format or it hangs after taking forever to try to complete the format. I have to admit I do not understand the process and thought I would be able to drag and drop as I have done with a flash drive. I did have Nero on my old PC but I cannot use that as I cannot get the photographs back to the PC from the laptop. I am fairly sure the old PC does not support a flash drive. Also the old PC does not have an Ethernet port.
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Oct 4, 2007
Just for information, I have a Canon LiDE 50 scanner and it seems that Canon will not be making a Vista 64bit driver for it, as I'm presuming it's too old. Just tried to use the Vista 64bit driver for the Canon LiDE 60 scanner and that works perfectly.
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Apr 18, 2007
how to get the Canon Lide 35 Scanner working under Vista 64? I tried everything, but even Vuescan won't work.
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May 29, 2008
I'm after a program that will log exactly what my computer is doing and how, so if i open a program it will show me "start devmgmt.msc" for when device manager is opened, or something like that, as I am into doing my little batch files (as we all do ) - Does anyone know if a piece of software exists?
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Aug 19, 2008
I have trawled the net but cannot find a Vista Ultimate x64 driver for my Epson Perfection 1650 scanner. I used to run it under Vista Business x32 (for which there is a driver).
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Jul 29, 2009
I run Windows Vista Home Premium (32). I've used my HP Photosmart C4280 printer for about 2 years, worked fine for the most part. Lately I started having problems, so I uninstalled and reinstalled the driver & software (got the latest versions from HP download site). Since reinstall, my scanner isn't working. Whether I press the "Scan" button on the unit, or I select "Scan picture" or "Scan document" from the HP Solution Center, an error pops up: "An error occurred communicating with the scanning device. Please ensure that the printing device is properly connected and try again".
I've downloaded and run HP Print Diagnostic Utility and it didn't find anything. Also, I've uninstalled/reinstalled the drivers/software several times, cleaned temporary files and registry, still the problem persists. Having said that, the printing/copying works fine, so I know that the printer is properly connected. BTW, tried connecting the same printer to a friend's PC running Windows XP and it scans with no problem, so the issue must have something to do with HP interacting (non-interacting) with Vista.
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Feb 6, 2009
I have a Canon 9950F Scanner that I used on another computer that had Windows XP operating system. I want to use this scanner on my new Dell XPS computer with Vista Premium Home Edition. I have talked to Canon and they downloaded the new Vista compatible software for installation of this scanner. However, when we try to install this software, the scanner is not recognized and does not show up as new hardware. I have a new all-in-one HP printer that also has a scanner. The printer works OK. Canon thinks there might be a conflict with the printer scanner and the Canon scanner causing
the non-recognition of the Canon scanner. Canon says they can do nothing for me and I will have to go to Dell to get them to see if there is a computer problem.
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Jun 29, 2009
Until recently, my scanner & camera wizard worked fine when I plugged in my memory card reader. Then it just stopped appearing when I plugged in the device. It just doesn't appear. I have seen other posts about changing registry entries, but I didn't want to mess with that until I was sure. How to I fix this so the scanner & camera wizard will autoplay?
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May 6, 2009
I got an USB scanner UMAX astra 1220U that works well in XP. but I can`tfind the driver for vista. does anyone has succeeded in using the astra 1220U on vista and let me know
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