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avast! 4.8 annoying upgrade notices to avast! 5

Posted in Microsoft Windows, computer stuff, software, system administration, tweaking / hacking / fixing on Jan 24th, 2011 No Comments »

Support of avast! 4.8 is being discontinued, as we all know. However, on some (early Pentium 4 and older Pentium III) computers, particularly those that only run a specific task, we don’t want (or need) to upgrade to avast! 5 (which may slow down these older machines).
Finally, after some searching we found that the [...]

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Avast – reverting back to another VPS file

Posted in computer stuff, spyware / viruses / worms, system administration, tweaking / hacking / fixing on Dec 3rd, 2009 No Comments »

Avast tonight released their updated VPS 091203-0 signature file which has been causing a lot of grief to everyone around the world with false-positives for the trojan/worm Win32:Delf-MZG[Trj].
The only fix for now is to disable updates and go back to a previous signature file that is not “bad”.
Luckily I have another machine which has not [...]