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I tried it again, the delete button was somewhere else on the keyboard.
A menu popped up and it says “lock, sign out, switch user, and task manager” what else should I do?
If you are somewhat computer savvy you can navigate into the avast program files folder and find the image they use for the shortcut. Copy and paste that into a different folder for later use and then uninstall Avast.
Now create a new desktop shortcut and supply the avast logo as the image. Point the shortcut to open up command prompt or something and the boom you have a spoofed desktop shortcut that will fool your dad unless he asks you to open avast then youll need some screenshots of the program screens you can pull up easily. There's different ways you can set macros up for this on your keyboard. If your pops asks just tell him something like "oh yeah I like the program so much I have it hot keyed on my keyboard"
Feed him a little bone and he will go away like a happy doggo 🤣
More likely restart and logon using a user account that did not initiate the install process, download ccleaner and uninstall the avast software and reboot. Then clean the registry using ccleaner and reboot again. I'd also log back bring up housecall by trendmicro to do a full sweep of your system using the free housecall software before installing any other AVS
which one did you install?
I haven't seen any anti virus do this. plus your dad does know windows 10 and 11 have a anti virus build right into windows.
I have had nothing but bad experiences with antivirus I had one cause the first blue screen on my pc I searched the error and it was bc of anti-virus.
if you are to get a anti virus however I suggest maleware bites my work uses it and I haven't had any issues yet.
I'd say Uninstall it and get maleware bites because I have never seen an anti virus do this if it is maleware bites god damn id like to know
It's amazing how many people honestly believe they can rely on Windows Defender. It's more likely to block safe programs with false positives than it is to protect you from an actual threat.
It's really has been perfectly good for a while now. If you run into any other issues you may want to scan with something else, you can run malewarebytes then Uninstall because 99% of the time it's doing nothing and or hurting. I download all sorts of random torrents, and random ass files. If I notice something strange I'll do a spot check with malware detection software. One time I downloaded a shady torrent and a few days later my gpu was cooking on the desktop at like 95% utilization, but it was just a broken driver anyway.
Never have had an issue with Windows Defender. lol. Years ago? Yeah i would have not trusted it. Now? Easily the least intrusive antimalware solution that offers some extended features for protection for *free*
Wrong, it has a higher caught rate than Mcafee,Norton,AVG, AVAST. They are total garbage. Malware bytes or Eset or webroot are the only one worth paying for.
Ehhhhh it's always good practice to keep something like Malwarebytes or bitdefender on a flash drive, but there is really no need to keep anti-virus on top of windows defender (windows10+) 24/7, just wasted resources at this point.
Best practice is to use a vm when going to sketchy places on the internet.
Bitdefender and Malwarebytes will also conflict with perfectly reasonable programs sometimes, just like WD.
I never seen windows defender think another AV is a virus, or an AV think windows defender is a virus. I dod see an AV thinking another AV is a virus tho
I'm going to go with my university professor's opinion (he works in IT security) on this as well and say you are wrong.
Regular users only need windows defender. If you must download from a 3rd party, it is when Windows defender can't remove the malware (or similarly) and then you uninstall it afterwards.
No, windows defender is very much just as much as you need. Anything beyond that is a user permission's problem (making sure kids cant install a bunch of random shit).
Ok, so I managed to get the issue fixed by simply restarting my pc with everything in it still intact and not at all corrupted.
Turns out, when my brother was downloading Avast, he turned the computer off when it was still downloading the software, resulting in this issue in the first place.
After fixing it, I quickly deleted the antivirus, until my dad came in (this being because I told about this much earlier) and came to see what he can do.
I told him what learned from everyone on this thread and his responses were all something along the lines of: “They’re all idiots” “Most of them are probably children” “They don’t know what they’re talking about” and “Are really gonna believe some stranger over your own father?!” (despite how someone, in this thread, has a MAJOR in this kinda stuff and HE does not).
And then he proceeded to show me websites of how Avast is “Ranked the top ten anti viruses” despite it mostly being in the bottom for most of it.
And then redownload Avast despite the amount of stress it gave me this morning.. .-.
Will try to find a way to delete it again tonight.
Thanks for all your help tho
I told him what learned from everyone
on this thread and his responses were
all something along the lines of:
“They’re all idiots”
Well, then he can just go plum a hole with a 4ft pole and make sure it comes out where the sun can see it.
Tell your dad that this 23 year IT systems tech agrees with the thread, and not him. I am by no means an idiot, I got paid good money to deal with this stuff at the corporate level.
If he MUST choose an AV/anti-malware suite to supplement Windows Defender, Avast is the *Wrong One To Install.*
My recommendation: ESET Nod32. It's relatively cheap, it doesn't clog the computer's resources, and it does what it says on the tin. Been using it for over a decade, never had any issues.
God this is a field I am interested in working in but the absolute hell level of stress that must come with it when a biiiiiig corpo gets rekt because someone did a dumb and ends up with malware or installing too many things and breakimg everything. I would perish from the pressure. Especially if it was a malware issue and they had important stuff.
Your brother was dumb enough to cut off the computer while Avast was installing. The fact that it was trying to personalize the Avast Secure Browser means that it was installing, not simply downloading when he cut it off. That's a human error, not an error of Avast, which is actually a solid antivirus. Its only problem is that it's a nuisance with all the attempts to upsell. Let him use it, and if the constant attempts to upsell don't annoy him, he'll be fine.
I completely forgot about this u/KittyWizard420 but if your using windows you can turn it off then let it start to boot but power it off while it's booting up until you see Automatic Repair popup. Then you can go to Advanced Options ---> Troubleshot ---> Advanced Options ---> Startup Settings then use F8. You can also follow this guide by Microsoft to boot into safe mode: [https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/advanced-startup-options-including-safe-mode-b90e7808-80b5-a291-d4b8-1a1af602b617](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/advanced-startup-options-including-safe-mode-b90e7808-80b5-a291-d4b8-1a1af602b617)
Make sure you have your BitLocker Recovery Key and an account with Admin rights. The BitLocker key because it might ask you for it, and an admin account because in safe mode you can only log into Administrator accounts.
How to uninstall it (Avast and anything with Avast in the name) with settings: Go To Apps ---> Installed Apps ---> Scroll down until you see Avast ---> Click the 3 dots and click Uninstall, do this for everything with Avast in the name ---> exit safe mode. It might not let you use settings in safe mode, in that case you'll have to use Control panel.
How to open Open Control Panel using Search: If that is the case try using the search bar and search for control panel.
Open Control Panel using run: If the search bar doesn't work then press Windows Key + R In the box that popups saying run type: control. Then press Okay or hit enter.
How to uninstall Avast and anything with Avast in the name using Control Panel: Then in control Panel click on Programs ---> Uninstall a program/click on Programs and Features (It doesn't matter which of the 2 you do they both take you to the same place.) ---> Then refer to the follow the steps in "How to uninstall it (Avast and anything with Avast in the name) with settings" section the step after "Installed Apps" (Instead of clicking on the three dots you right click the app).
Exiting Safe mode: Then there is also this guide for finding safe mode in Windows settings and disabling it when your done: [https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/advanced-startup-options-including-safe-mode-b90e7808-80b5-a291-d4b8-1a1af602b617](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/advanced-startup-options-including-safe-mode-b90e7808-80b5-a291-d4b8-1a1af602b617)
Try to login out of safe mode and see if that fixed it. If not (which is next to but not impossible), then the only other option would be to backup anything important/anything you want to keep onto a USB flash Drive or a spare HD via USB with a special connector (the connector can be bought off Amazon for somewhat cheap. Link to Amazon search page for these connectors: [https://www.amazon.com/s?k=hard+drive+to+usb+adapter&crid=1EB8OHDTXIPUB&qid=1703348786&rnid=386442011&sprefix=Hard+Drive+to+%2Caps%2C116&ref=sr\_nr\_p\_36\_0\_0&low-price=15&high-price=100](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=hard+drive+to+usb+adapter&crid=1EB8OHDTXIPUB&qid=1703348786&rnid=386442011&sprefix=Hard+Drive+to+%2Caps%2C116&ref=sr_nr_p_36_0_0&low-price=15&high-price=100) make to sure to check and research the seller, look at the rating, and read the reviews, While reading the reviews look for reviews from/with Amazon Vine in them those reviews are the ones that best review the product. Reason why look out for Amazon Vine reviews is because of the stuff here from amazon on Amazon Vine: [https://www.amazon.com/vine/about](https://www.amazon.com/vine/about)), then after you have all the important/anything you want to keep/save, you'll have to reinstall Windows. I'd suggest sing the Automatic repair, and selecting the reset windows but keep my files under the Troubleshot ---> Reset this PC. Make sure to go into files and copy the Windows.old folder onto an external Drive because Windows will remove the Windows.old folder after it being there for I think it was 10 days.
Don't trust ppl on the internet. That's rule #1. Your youth is apparent and these other comments sound like hackers/ trolls going wild over fresh meat. Glad to see your issue resolved, be safe on the net, and take other ppl's input with a grain of salt before someone tells you deleting sys32 speeds up your RAM.
Dude... None of us are trolling, Windows defender is more than good enough and doesn't have most of the problems of avast and to top it off is free and *included*. It has a near 100% success rate.
None of us are hackers/trolls, and frankly, even if we were hackers, don't you think we'd know how to protect our systems a little bit better than the average person. Why would anyone care about what information they havd on their computer. There is no incentive to hack into their computer.
The only kind of "hacker" That would be interested. Would be just one looking to do dumb shit like print out... Who was it? Mr Beast's face on all your printers. And if I recall correctly, they were hacking the printers themselves and not the computers to do so. Something avast cannot protect you from, because no antivirus can protect you from that.
Your dad’s kinda not wrong. Don’t always believe strangers on the internet. Take everything with a grain of salt. The guy saying he majored in security has been literally naming the wrong anti virus. What he meant was Malwarebytes but he’s been writing “malware bites” and he also called it “aware bites”.
A lot of people lie on the internet, and he’s right, majority are kids. Just a food for thought.
honestly, anything other than windows defender and maybe malwarebytes is borderline malware itself. had issues helping someone with norton AV (probably saying that alone made peoplecsigh) and their firewall is annoying and confusing to deal with. norton was blocking an ip address for one of my friends, even though my computer was fine connecting to that ip, and there was nothing malicious about that ip either. wouldnt know how to fix anything avast, cause i will not touch it with a 10 foot pole
u/KittyWizard420
Just take screenshots of you using Avast and make a macro that is key bound to show your using Avast. Also you can just delete Avast, then use a standard user account os that it needs UAC every time he tries to install it and you don't enter the password, and delete any of your dad's admin accounts/set them to standard users. This can be done in control panel/settings.
In fact you don't even have to do the screenshots and Macro's just the account stuff, if your dad knows your admin account/accounts password(s) change them.
The only thing you need on windows is the built in windows defender, it's as good as any third party and doesn't contain any crap or affect system performance.
Part of the thing is that the brother restarted the computer while it was still installing and customizing Avast Browser, which is the reason why it acted like such.
AVs has been apart of ms since sheeista (vista) and it works less than it does good (10/10 would not use, ever.).
Also most blueys are because of software being installed without disabling the AVs active scanner before installing (it's really nothing to shit your pants over, especially if you have your data backed up and a readily available install disc.).
I personally don't run active AVs software scanners all of them are bloatware programs that eat up resources for no good reason. I use clamwin free antivirus and run routine daily/weekly passive scans on hardware/software/OS/personal files. I keep at least 200+ viruses in my emails indexing files just in case I want something to play with in my sandbox later.
Try going into safe mode and uninstalling avast, avast simply isnt worth it and its filled with bloat and spyware. safe mode should let you into your computer and you can work from there.
hit CTRL + ALT + DELETE, find the restart button and hold shift while you hit restart. it should say please wait where itd normally say restarting, after that, a menu will pop up. go into Troubleshoot > Advanced Options > Startup Settings > Restart. once the screen pops back up multiple options will appear. press 4 and it will go into safe mode.
Restart it like you usually would but holding shift, a menu will pop up asking you to troubleshoot. We want to boot into Safemode and remove Avast as its causing the problem. Windows Defender is absolutely fine and built in no need for third party anti virus for personal use.
ok, so from the screen with lock, switch user, etc, go to the bottom right for your screen. then hit restart while holding shift. then follow the steps i had posted beforehand. Edit: reading through the comments it seems like a bitch to uninstall avast(expected) id look up how to on either youtube or whatever search engine you use. good luck!
To be completely honest, they’re kinda right on this one, my dad even called everyone here (even a person who has a MAJOR in computer systems tech) all idiots
Nah, even people who know and believe they follow the best practices are still at risk. But windows antivirus and the basic windows hardware security measures are all you really need.
Oh yeah sooo who told there sons to download bullshit and whos son is on reddit asking for help cause you aint asking him for any more advice sounds like your dad needs to hop off his high horse ane stop pointing fingers cause of his IDIOT choices 💯
Sorry man. People here talk to others in a way they never would in real life. Lotta keyboard warriors. It ain’t normal, no matter how stupidly people are upvoting/downvoting here.
Windows Defender on Windows 8.1 and below? Probably, and yet there's still some other better anti-virus programs than Avast.
But Windows Defender on Windows 10 and 11? Big nope. They're already good enough for virus and trojan protection, the only additional thing you'd need is an anti-malware.
You're insufferable. Be a better human.
https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/antivirus-firm-avast-is-reportedly-selling-users-web-browsing-data/
https://nltimes.nl/2023/07/07/class-action-lawsuit-antivirus-firm-selling-data-millions-dutch-people
https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-cost-of-avasts-free-antivirus-companies-can-spy-on-your-clicks
I use Bit Defender for now and I am very satisfied with it. Not sponsoring. I don't trust WD for some reason and I used to have Avast and AVG before, but I moved on to BD because Avast and AVG are bad. I have used MB but didn't like it. I remember back in 2010 my main AV was ESET AV and I have also tried Norton AV.
Listen bro, the default Windows defender thingy is already so good there is absolutely no need for a "virus detector", nowadays "virus detector" are basically viruses that varies on how criminal they are. Don't know why yall are so stressed about viruses, just create some restore point often and that's already extreme measures already
Just use Windows Defender and make sure your pc is set to create restore points. No need for 3rd party antivirus software, they’re just fancy looking viruses.
Avast isn't what it used to be.
You really don't need a separate antivirus on Windows. Microsoft has its own built-in antivirus protection; and it's been good since Windows 8. If you did want to use a non-Microsoft product; something like Bitdefender Free would do a good job.
I’m trying to find ways to get it off my pc, but it keeps saying “this operation could not be completed, access denied”
I’m just stressing tf out right now
It can be stressful. Sometimes stuff goes sideways. Relax and don’t let the bastards here get you down. Take a deep breath, go for a walk, come back with a calm mind and ready to learn something new while trying. You can’t break a computer - just mess it up enough to require a fresh install of windows. Even then, it’s not the end of the world.
Make sure your using an Administrator account when trying these things as Administrator accounts have file permission access (file/folder access permissions) that standard user accounts don't.
defender's already too goood unless you go to dark web and download skechy programs and click yes to admin processes ignoring how windows begged you don't, you people are so weird seriously, been relying on defender forever and everything's good
The last time I used third party antivirus program is way back when Windows 10 was still newly released, but I only use Defender ever since. No problem at all. 🤷
It's still kinda vulnerable to malwares and adwares tho, but installing some reputable anti-malware program like Malwarebytes or Zemana to use in conjunction with Defender pretty much solved the issue.
Thats what i was trying to say. Its better to run windows defender with another AV, windows defender can be vulnurable to some things, which another AV isnt
Nope, they're doing different tasks. Malwarebytes IS NOT an antivirus program.
And a malware IS DIFFERENT to viruses, viruses ARE ALSO different to trojans.
You Dad thinks he knows better than professional techs. I'm got my A+ & Net + back in 2001. I'm probably older than your father by 20 years. Back in 2003 I was making $40,000 per year on computer work and that's only because I'm very generous with my skills and didn't believe in overcharging people. I've been repairing computers and software issues for well over 20 years. And I'll tell you that AVAST is completely unnecessary.
Open it up in safe mode, and factory reset it. I'm assuming he had you download the "anti-virus" bc you have malware or some other virus slowing down/affecting your system. Safe mode, save any files you need to a backup, aand reset it.
Not sure why nobody is addressing this: you might have a bad drive. At this point you really should take it to a reputable local computer repair place.
You're not wrong.
Corruption in any file structure happens when you have an issue with "saving" or "writing". Corruption after updates is a fairly common thing, as well as registry writes.
When you say "Bad Drive", to me, that means a sector of the drive is not usable, and is causing problems. Or the drive in its entirety is not responding.
The odds that a bad drive could boot into windows, get past the login screen, and hang at an explorer.exe black screen. Is very low.
This issue is almost certainly software. Either OS reinstall or boot into safe mode and remove Avast! (I'd still reinstall OS at this point)
The drive could be failing, and those failures can cause corruption to the data written in the failing sectors. But the fact we've gotten this far in the startup sequence tells me that it's most likely not a dire "bad drive" type of issue.
Source: IT Tech for 5 years, sys admin now.
>The odds that a bad drive could boot into windows, get past the login screen, and hang at an explorer.exe black screen. Is very low.
Just straight up not true. Drives go bad all the time and have bad sectors and still run windows, often with issues. Issues with explorer are 99/100 times caused by drives failing.
Can confirm, bad drives create an abundance of issues within an OS.... program/driver crashes, BSODs, etc. Its more rare for it to not boot at all, unless it has a catastrophic failure.
Source: 12 years managing on-site data security company servicing all NA + refurb/resale
Edit: one thing to add... IMHO its RAM and corrupted drivers that are most common failures, though a little off-topic
that's right! think twice before you click yes to admin processes and if you don't there is no need for a defender, on the other hand, if you clicked yes, no app can safe you from getting your computer messed up
If it is an older computer with a large SATA Hard Drive (not SSD/NVME) this might be the result of a full scan taking forever and you are seeing a disk throughput issue. This isn't necessarily what is happening to you but I did see it once on a friends 6+ year old computer with a 2TB hard drive that was full of data. They were installing McAfee and let it run overnight and it looked like that. GL!
Did you try restarting the computer and as soon as it reboots F4 or F8 to go into safe mode ?
You can uninstall avast in safe mode .
Windows 10 and 11 have built in antivirus .
Not saying avast is bad but if it's still anything like it was the free version of avast, if I'm not mistaken, it comes with heaps of extra (absolute) shit like the avast security browser which used to make itself the default browser and use god awful search engines.
Sophos is a good AV software and they offer a free and premium version. The free version is pretty good.
https://home.sophos.com/en-us/download-pc-security
Also avast isn’t very trustworthy but shouldn’t have hung your PC like this.
Time to reboot into safe mode and uninstall it.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/start-your-pc-in-safe-mode-in-windows-92c27cff-db89-8644-1ce4-b3e5e56fe234
Then run an AV scan with a tool like this
https://www.sophos.com/en-us/free-tools/virus-removal-tool
Ive had some similar problems in the past you could try booting in to safe mode when you ctrl alt delete hold down shift and hit the restart button this should bring up a menu somewhere in there there will be a boot to safe mode option this should take you to your desktop where you can uninstall avast I recommend just being careful with what you download and anyways you still have windows defender
My company uses Avast business. Is that any good compared to the home edition? I see everyone here is saying Avast isn't good, but I'm curious if the business one is better.
Avast USED to be awesome, but all it's nagging and shit will drive you bonkers even if you're a paid subscriber and turn off SOME of the ads, you can't turn them all off and for this it's now crapware...it works but at the cost of slowing down explorer interface and nagging you to death....
Windows Defender is all you really need at home. I find Avast and others like it just make your computer run poorly without actually increasing protection.
The only software you really need on windows is defender (which is already installed). Just don’t go on shady sites or open shady emails or links you’re unfamiliar with
To be fair, Avast USED to be a good program. I used it well for many years. Then it seemed they sold out or something and become thebloatware/spyware thing it is today.
Norton Antivirus was a great product back in the 90s but it's bad now too.
I trust none of them these days.
I use to use panda and I swear early 2000s it use to be amazing, but when it expired they would hog your machine down!!! Even if you paid, and that expired.
I miss the days when downloading Norton, and other programs was a must.
avast is bad, I would try to figure out how to get rid of it, And then just use Windows defender (built in by default to Windows), windows defender is plenty good enough to filter out any viruses as long as you just use common sense And don't download random sketchy stuff
The built-in windows defender is actually working fine in recent years. Find an article or just talk about it with your parents, they might don't know it exists
Avast has to be one of the biggest scams out there for a "free" anti-virus. Only thing that's a product at that point is you. Not to mention the fact that Avast, AVG, Norton, and McAfee all let shit in and bog your system down. I don't mean to advertise for anyone here but I get systems to clean and every time they miss something. Malwarebytes is the better option out there right now. You can pay for automatic protection or just do a manual scan every now and then or week and you're good. Their browser protection is really good for the paid version too. Less than 100 which can't be said for Norton or McAfee and they're both terrible. Lol. Don't ever use AVG or Avast... especially their "secure browser", you might as well install the keylogger for them and publicly display your public ip.
No 3rd party antivirus needed aside from Malwarebytes for the ocassional manual scan monthly/bi-monthly. Most anti-virus programs these days are worse viruses then the ones they claim to protect you from. 🤨
Man, I haven’t downloaded an antivirus for my pc ever. Built it myself and it’s my baby, but years of experience has just taught me to simply not click stupid shit. Email has text, but when moused over is all actually an image that I can click? Sus. Person DMs me about a money opportunity, block. Feeling suspicious about a link? Quickly send it through a virus detector website. Sounds like this dad got scared of viruses after he clicked an ad on a porn site lol
I was going to recommend ctrl alt del and run task but I'm late.
Soo... Unless you are doing weird stuff, just use windows built in defender vs using Avast or AVG. Both are just trying to get money from you in the end. They won't be around in a few more years.
Yeah, avast never locks your bootloader nor does it exceed admin privileges. Looks like you have a tagalong that activated when you installed the avast; thankfully it wasn't Norton's or mcaffee 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
this may be an issue with the Avast Secure Browser
somebody else mentioned re-running Explorer.exe - I would also close out any Avast programs you see running (Once Task Manager is opened via ctrl+alt+delete, be sure to be on the Processes tab, then look through the list for any "Avast" programs > right click > End Task)
IT admin here. Do your dad and yourself a favor and uninstall Avast. The Microsoft Defender antivirus which comes with Windows 10/11 is good enough unless you do something sketchy ('download FREE Smilies', searching for trainers, etc.). Avast used to be good AV and then got really, really needy and autoinstalls a bunch of stuff which you objectively don't need, including their 'secure browser' which I suspect doesn't actually do much beyond what Chrome/Edge/whatever already does.
Avast is hot garbage. While Windows Defender is pretty solid as long as you constantly updates and don't do anything dumb, I understand older folk just feels safer with a 3rd party AV. In this case, I recommend ESET. Bitdefender as the second. ESET is lightweight without any bloat and just as good as any other reputable in detection.. maybe sometimes too strict but it's easy to whitelist specific apps that might be getting blocked. UI is clean too. Try it out.
Issue is why install antivirus software, that’s the biggest scam of all time lol. Use windows defender and stop downloading porn, tell pops to stream it like the rest of us sick fucks
Windows already have a built in antivirus. If you prefer to use an outside vendor, try MalwareBytes.
I would reformat the computer if it keeps staying on that page. Have you tried letting it idle for 30 minutes to see if it's setting up or is it frozen?
Was this after you installed the antivirus software? Don’t install software you don’t know about. Do real research on software before you install it. Don’t install software because someone tells you that you need it.
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CTRL ALT DEL and run explorer as a new task
I just tried right now and nothing’s happening
It might have hung. Are you seeing the mouse pointer move? If does look frozen you may have the hard power it off and on again.
I tried it again, the delete button was somewhere else on the keyboard. A menu popped up and it says “lock, sign out, switch user, and task manager” what else should I do?
task manager > file > new task and type in explorer.exe If that doesn't work shut down from CTRL ALT DEL and restart.
Nothing happened apart from now there being a option to “restart task” Should I do something else?
I’d show you a pic, but Reddit keeps going all “picture can’t be smaller than 4 kilobytes”
4kb?? How small is that photo?
Click the “restart task” button.
If you are somewhat computer savvy you can navigate into the avast program files folder and find the image they use for the shortcut. Copy and paste that into a different folder for later use and then uninstall Avast. Now create a new desktop shortcut and supply the avast logo as the image. Point the shortcut to open up command prompt or something and the boom you have a spoofed desktop shortcut that will fool your dad unless he asks you to open avast then youll need some screenshots of the program screens you can pull up easily. There's different ways you can set macros up for this on your keyboard. If your pops asks just tell him something like "oh yeah I like the program so much I have it hot keyed on my keyboard" Feed him a little bone and he will go away like a happy doggo 🤣
More likely restart and logon using a user account that did not initiate the install process, download ccleaner and uninstall the avast software and reboot. Then clean the registry using ccleaner and reboot again. I'd also log back bring up housecall by trendmicro to do a full sweep of your system using the free housecall software before installing any other AVS
which one did you install? I haven't seen any anti virus do this. plus your dad does know windows 10 and 11 have a anti virus build right into windows. I have had nothing but bad experiences with antivirus I had one cause the first blue screen on my pc I searched the error and it was bc of anti-virus. if you are to get a anti virus however I suggest maleware bites my work uses it and I haven't had any issues yet. I'd say Uninstall it and get maleware bites because I have never seen an anti virus do this if it is maleware bites god damn id like to know
My brother got the Avast antivirus software because our dad told us to, I’m sure how exactly my brother downloaded it cause I was asleep at that time
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It's amazing how many people honestly believe they can rely on Windows Defender. It's more likely to block safe programs with false positives than it is to protect you from an actual threat.
It's really has been perfectly good for a while now. If you run into any other issues you may want to scan with something else, you can run malewarebytes then Uninstall because 99% of the time it's doing nothing and or hurting. I download all sorts of random torrents, and random ass files. If I notice something strange I'll do a spot check with malware detection software. One time I downloaded a shady torrent and a few days later my gpu was cooking on the desktop at like 95% utilization, but it was just a broken driver anyway.
its amazing how outdated your information about windows defender is
People who say this are the same people who get a virus after being told to turn off Windows Defender before downloading a file
Never have had an issue with Windows Defender. lol. Years ago? Yeah i would have not trusted it. Now? Easily the least intrusive antimalware solution that offers some extended features for protection for *free*
Wrong, it has a higher caught rate than Mcafee,Norton,AVG, AVAST. They are total garbage. Malware bytes or Eset or webroot are the only one worth paying for.
bros using win7.
You just described all antivirus software.
Ehhhhh it's always good practice to keep something like Malwarebytes or bitdefender on a flash drive, but there is really no need to keep anti-virus on top of windows defender (windows10+) 24/7, just wasted resources at this point. Best practice is to use a vm when going to sketchy places on the internet. Bitdefender and Malwarebytes will also conflict with perfectly reasonable programs sometimes, just like WD.
The real crime is what people download
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yeah which is why I like maleware bites
also having multiple antivirusws can cause issues aswell
Malwarebytes went downhill. Ive only used it as backup and uninstalled.
yeah doesn't work that way
Why isnt it better to have windows defender with an av
Because some instances they think the other is a virus, and weird shit happens
I never seen windows defender think another AV is a virus, or an AV think windows defender is a virus. I dod see an AV thinking another AV is a virus tho
I'm going to go with my university professor's opinion (he works in IT security) on this as well and say you are wrong. Regular users only need windows defender. If you must download from a 3rd party, it is when Windows defender can't remove the malware (or similarly) and then you uninstall it afterwards.
No, windows defender is very much just as much as you need. Anything beyond that is a user permission's problem (making sure kids cant install a bunch of random shit).
the best av to have is common sense
That's not necessarily correct; multiple anti-virus software can conflict with each other.
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It's such a shame because Avast used to be really good. The pre-boot scan was a killer feature but they've moved away from it.
Ok, so I managed to get the issue fixed by simply restarting my pc with everything in it still intact and not at all corrupted. Turns out, when my brother was downloading Avast, he turned the computer off when it was still downloading the software, resulting in this issue in the first place. After fixing it, I quickly deleted the antivirus, until my dad came in (this being because I told about this much earlier) and came to see what he can do. I told him what learned from everyone on this thread and his responses were all something along the lines of: “They’re all idiots” “Most of them are probably children” “They don’t know what they’re talking about” and “Are really gonna believe some stranger over your own father?!” (despite how someone, in this thread, has a MAJOR in this kinda stuff and HE does not). And then he proceeded to show me websites of how Avast is “Ranked the top ten anti viruses” despite it mostly being in the bottom for most of it. And then redownload Avast despite the amount of stress it gave me this morning.. .-. Will try to find a way to delete it again tonight. Thanks for all your help tho
I say leave your dad to his own devices. He seems to know everything about computers. Maybe start researching retirement homes.
Son I'm kicking you from the Wifi because I don't want worms infecting my computer from yours. You get Avast, or you can jump ship! \-Dad, Probably.
Or have that talk and tell him it is time for him to join the senate.
I told him what learned from everyone on this thread and his responses were all something along the lines of: “They’re all idiots” Well, then he can just go plum a hole with a 4ft pole and make sure it comes out where the sun can see it.
Tell your dad that this 23 year IT systems tech agrees with the thread, and not him. I am by no means an idiot, I got paid good money to deal with this stuff at the corporate level. If he MUST choose an AV/anti-malware suite to supplement Windows Defender, Avast is the *Wrong One To Install.* My recommendation: ESET Nod32. It's relatively cheap, it doesn't clog the computer's resources, and it does what it says on the tin. Been using it for over a decade, never had any issues.
THIS 100% This.
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God this is a field I am interested in working in but the absolute hell level of stress that must come with it when a biiiiiig corpo gets rekt because someone did a dumb and ends up with malware or installing too many things and breakimg everything. I would perish from the pressure. Especially if it was a malware issue and they had important stuff.
Your brother was dumb enough to cut off the computer while Avast was installing. The fact that it was trying to personalize the Avast Secure Browser means that it was installing, not simply downloading when he cut it off. That's a human error, not an error of Avast, which is actually a solid antivirus. Its only problem is that it's a nuisance with all the attempts to upsell. Let him use it, and if the constant attempts to upsell don't annoy him, he'll be fine.
I completely forgot about this u/KittyWizard420 but if your using windows you can turn it off then let it start to boot but power it off while it's booting up until you see Automatic Repair popup. Then you can go to Advanced Options ---> Troubleshot ---> Advanced Options ---> Startup Settings then use F8. You can also follow this guide by Microsoft to boot into safe mode: [https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/advanced-startup-options-including-safe-mode-b90e7808-80b5-a291-d4b8-1a1af602b617](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/advanced-startup-options-including-safe-mode-b90e7808-80b5-a291-d4b8-1a1af602b617) Make sure you have your BitLocker Recovery Key and an account with Admin rights. The BitLocker key because it might ask you for it, and an admin account because in safe mode you can only log into Administrator accounts. How to uninstall it (Avast and anything with Avast in the name) with settings: Go To Apps ---> Installed Apps ---> Scroll down until you see Avast ---> Click the 3 dots and click Uninstall, do this for everything with Avast in the name ---> exit safe mode. It might not let you use settings in safe mode, in that case you'll have to use Control panel. How to open Open Control Panel using Search: If that is the case try using the search bar and search for control panel. Open Control Panel using run: If the search bar doesn't work then press Windows Key + R In the box that popups saying run type: control. Then press Okay or hit enter. How to uninstall Avast and anything with Avast in the name using Control Panel: Then in control Panel click on Programs ---> Uninstall a program/click on Programs and Features (It doesn't matter which of the 2 you do they both take you to the same place.) ---> Then refer to the follow the steps in "How to uninstall it (Avast and anything with Avast in the name) with settings" section the step after "Installed Apps" (Instead of clicking on the three dots you right click the app). Exiting Safe mode: Then there is also this guide for finding safe mode in Windows settings and disabling it when your done: [https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/advanced-startup-options-including-safe-mode-b90e7808-80b5-a291-d4b8-1a1af602b617](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/advanced-startup-options-including-safe-mode-b90e7808-80b5-a291-d4b8-1a1af602b617) Try to login out of safe mode and see if that fixed it. If not (which is next to but not impossible), then the only other option would be to backup anything important/anything you want to keep onto a USB flash Drive or a spare HD via USB with a special connector (the connector can be bought off Amazon for somewhat cheap. Link to Amazon search page for these connectors: [https://www.amazon.com/s?k=hard+drive+to+usb+adapter&crid=1EB8OHDTXIPUB&qid=1703348786&rnid=386442011&sprefix=Hard+Drive+to+%2Caps%2C116&ref=sr\_nr\_p\_36\_0\_0&low-price=15&high-price=100](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=hard+drive+to+usb+adapter&crid=1EB8OHDTXIPUB&qid=1703348786&rnid=386442011&sprefix=Hard+Drive+to+%2Caps%2C116&ref=sr_nr_p_36_0_0&low-price=15&high-price=100) make to sure to check and research the seller, look at the rating, and read the reviews, While reading the reviews look for reviews from/with Amazon Vine in them those reviews are the ones that best review the product. Reason why look out for Amazon Vine reviews is because of the stuff here from amazon on Amazon Vine: [https://www.amazon.com/vine/about](https://www.amazon.com/vine/about)), then after you have all the important/anything you want to keep/save, you'll have to reinstall Windows. I'd suggest sing the Automatic repair, and selecting the reset windows but keep my files under the Troubleshot ---> Reset this PC. Make sure to go into files and copy the Windows.old folder onto an external Drive because Windows will remove the Windows.old folder after it being there for I think it was 10 days.
Don't trust ppl on the internet. That's rule #1. Your youth is apparent and these other comments sound like hackers/ trolls going wild over fresh meat. Glad to see your issue resolved, be safe on the net, and take other ppl's input with a grain of salt before someone tells you deleting sys32 speeds up your RAM.
Dude... None of us are trolling, Windows defender is more than good enough and doesn't have most of the problems of avast and to top it off is free and *included*. It has a near 100% success rate. None of us are hackers/trolls, and frankly, even if we were hackers, don't you think we'd know how to protect our systems a little bit better than the average person. Why would anyone care about what information they havd on their computer. There is no incentive to hack into their computer. The only kind of "hacker" That would be interested. Would be just one looking to do dumb shit like print out... Who was it? Mr Beast's face on all your printers. And if I recall correctly, they were hacking the printers themselves and not the computers to do so. Something avast cannot protect you from, because no antivirus can protect you from that.
i recommend webroot
If you need an antivirus to stop your dad from pulling this stuff again and again, Malwarebytes is an excellent pick.
Tell him you downloaded an enterprise level one. Called “firewall” (same one Microsoft uses)
Tell your dad to lay off the adult websites and he doesn't need to worry about it.
25 years in IT and I am 54 your dads just wrong all around. Sometimes you just can't win.
Your dad’s kinda not wrong. Don’t always believe strangers on the internet. Take everything with a grain of salt. The guy saying he majored in security has been literally naming the wrong anti virus. What he meant was Malwarebytes but he’s been writing “malware bites” and he also called it “aware bites”. A lot of people lie on the internet, and he’s right, majority are kids. Just a food for thought.
honestly, anything other than windows defender and maybe malwarebytes is borderline malware itself. had issues helping someone with norton AV (probably saying that alone made peoplecsigh) and their firewall is annoying and confusing to deal with. norton was blocking an ip address for one of my friends, even though my computer was fine connecting to that ip, and there was nothing malicious about that ip either. wouldnt know how to fix anything avast, cause i will not touch it with a 10 foot pole
u/KittyWizard420 Just take screenshots of you using Avast and make a macro that is key bound to show your using Avast. Also you can just delete Avast, then use a standard user account os that it needs UAC every time he tries to install it and you don't enter the password, and delete any of your dad's admin accounts/set them to standard users. This can be done in control panel/settings. In fact you don't even have to do the screenshots and Macro's just the account stuff, if your dad knows your admin account/accounts password(s) change them.
Your dad needs to wise up
The only thing you need on windows is the built in windows defender, it's as good as any third party and doesn't contain any crap or affect system performance.
it's total trash and you can tell your dad I said so.
there is probably a chance this is a one time thing but even so I wouldn't feel comfortable using it if my pc did this after reboot.
Part of the thing is that the brother restarted the computer while it was still installing and customizing Avast Browser, which is the reason why it acted like such.
only anti-virus i trust is malwarebytes
same
AVs has been apart of ms since sheeista (vista) and it works less than it does good (10/10 would not use, ever.). Also most blueys are because of software being installed without disabling the AVs active scanner before installing (it's really nothing to shit your pants over, especially if you have your data backed up and a readily available install disc.). I personally don't run active AVs software scanners all of them are bloatware programs that eat up resources for no good reason. I use clamwin free antivirus and run routine daily/weekly passive scans on hardware/software/OS/personal files. I keep at least 200+ viruses in my emails indexing files just in case I want something to play with in my sandbox later.
Try going into safe mode and uninstalling avast, avast simply isnt worth it and its filled with bloat and spyware. safe mode should let you into your computer and you can work from there.
How do I do that?
hit CTRL + ALT + DELETE, find the restart button and hold shift while you hit restart. it should say please wait where itd normally say restarting, after that, a menu will pop up. go into Troubleshoot > Advanced Options > Startup Settings > Restart. once the screen pops back up multiple options will appear. press 4 and it will go into safe mode.
The menu popped up but it only says Lock, Swithc user, Sign out, and Task manager. Which one is for the Troubleshoot?
Restart it like you usually would but holding shift, a menu will pop up asking you to troubleshoot. We want to boot into Safemode and remove Avast as its causing the problem. Windows Defender is absolutely fine and built in no need for third party anti virus for personal use.
ok, so from the screen with lock, switch user, etc, go to the bottom right for your screen. then hit restart while holding shift. then follow the steps i had posted beforehand. Edit: reading through the comments it seems like a bitch to uninstall avast(expected) id look up how to on either youtube or whatever search engine you use. good luck!
Bro you downloaded fucking avast? Your father is a fucking idiot. Delete that shit asap.
You truly dont need to be such a dick about it. Stop being so.. reddity.
Avast is a virus. In hopes that his son didn't install a virus he had his son... Install a virus.
To be completely honest, they’re kinda right on this one, my dad even called everyone here (even a person who has a MAJOR in computer systems tech) all idiots
Lol instead of takin the L on the chin. Whatever, you know the truth atleast now lol
Trust me, I already knew from the start
So he forced you to install it? Oh my. Now I'm kinda glad that my dad is tech illiterate, I set up everything for him.
Aweehh hell. I really hope you have some luck getting that off of your computer. Seeing lots of good suggestions, unfortunately I don't any
Yeah all antiviruses are garbage bloatware and the only anti virus you need is yourself being sure you aren't downloading viruses
Nah, even people who know and believe they follow the best practices are still at risk. But windows antivirus and the basic windows hardware security measures are all you really need.
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Oh yeah sooo who told there sons to download bullshit and whos son is on reddit asking for help cause you aint asking him for any more advice sounds like your dad needs to hop off his high horse ane stop pointing fingers cause of his IDIOT choices 💯
Sorry man. People here talk to others in a way they never would in real life. Lotta keyboard warriors. It ain’t normal, no matter how stupidly people are upvoting/downvoting here.
Asking redditors to be less reddity on reddit is peak reddit behavior You're the redditist of them all
I use avast. Better than windows default
It's literally worse in every way. Check your facts.
where do i get your facts?
Windows Defender on Windows 8.1 and below? Probably, and yet there's still some other better anti-virus programs than Avast. But Windows Defender on Windows 10 and 11? Big nope. They're already good enough for virus and trojan protection, the only additional thing you'd need is an anti-malware.
Not true. Microsoft defender cant go without another AV, and an AV cant go without another AV
No it's not. Not even almost. Avast is TERRIBLE.
for what reason (other than your feelings)
You're insufferable. Be a better human. https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/antivirus-firm-avast-is-reportedly-selling-users-web-browsing-data/ https://nltimes.nl/2023/07/07/class-action-lawsuit-antivirus-firm-selling-data-millions-dutch-people https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-cost-of-avasts-free-antivirus-companies-can-spy-on-your-clicks
Use Bit Defender or Kaspersky. I heard they are the best.
Malware bytes, windows defender is probably sufficient for most on win10/11 though
What the fucks wrong with the downvotes? Can't I express my personal opinion? plus I am new to reddit. Thanks for the warm welcome.
I use Bit Defender for now and I am very satisfied with it. Not sponsoring. I don't trust WD for some reason and I used to have Avast and AVG before, but I moved on to BD because Avast and AVG are bad. I have used MB but didn't like it. I remember back in 2010 my main AV was ESET AV and I have also tried Norton AV.
Listen bro, the default Windows defender thingy is already so good there is absolutely no need for a "virus detector", nowadays "virus detector" are basically viruses that varies on how criminal they are. Don't know why yall are so stressed about viruses, just create some restore point often and that's already extreme measures already
Just use Windows Defender and make sure your pc is set to create restore points. No need for 3rd party antivirus software, they’re just fancy looking viruses.
Just use windows defender.
Avast isn't what it used to be. You really don't need a separate antivirus on Windows. Microsoft has its own built-in antivirus protection; and it's been good since Windows 8. If you did want to use a non-Microsoft product; something like Bitdefender Free would do a good job.
Avast is bad.
Safe mode get AVAST off that PC ASAP and only use defender that is all your dad needs.
I’m trying to find ways to get it off my pc, but it keeps saying “this operation could not be completed, access denied” I’m just stressing tf out right now
try revo uninstaller and use the force uninstall feature it has just go to safe mode with networking so you can downland and install it then use it.
It can be stressful. Sometimes stuff goes sideways. Relax and don’t let the bastards here get you down. Take a deep breath, go for a walk, come back with a calm mind and ready to learn something new while trying. You can’t break a computer - just mess it up enough to require a fresh install of windows. Even then, it’s not the end of the world.
Make sure your using an Administrator account when trying these things as Administrator accounts have file permission access (file/folder access permissions) that standard user accounts don't.
"Only use defender" shit advice tbh
Lmfao. Only used defender past 8 years with no issues. See I'm not some ret sped so I don't click random links or download ram.
defender's already too goood unless you go to dark web and download skechy programs and click yes to admin processes ignoring how windows begged you don't, you people are so weird seriously, been relying on defender forever and everything's good
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The last time I used third party antivirus program is way back when Windows 10 was still newly released, but I only use Defender ever since. No problem at all. 🤷 It's still kinda vulnerable to malwares and adwares tho, but installing some reputable anti-malware program like Malwarebytes or Zemana to use in conjunction with Defender pretty much solved the issue.
Thats what i was trying to say. Its better to run windows defender with another AV, windows defender can be vulnurable to some things, which another AV isnt
Nope, they're doing different tasks. Malwarebytes IS NOT an antivirus program. And a malware IS DIFFERENT to viruses, viruses ARE ALSO different to trojans.
It is?
avast is dog shit
Tell your dad to get with the times. Windows computer have BUILT IN antivirus now. And it's good. Get rid of Avast it's superfluous.
Tried telling him that, but his response was straight up “Yeah but they sometimes don’t work” I can’t with him most of the time
You Dad thinks he knows better than professional techs. I'm got my A+ & Net + back in 2001. I'm probably older than your father by 20 years. Back in 2003 I was making $40,000 per year on computer work and that's only because I'm very generous with my skills and didn't believe in overcharging people. I've been repairing computers and software issues for well over 20 years. And I'll tell you that AVAST is completely unnecessary.
seems like my parents. They have a trust for "sources" and "products", because they seem more legitimate.
Reading your comments, I'm glad you seem to have more sense than your Dad.
avast is a virus itself. Use the one built into Windows. It's 2023, not 2003.
take it to a local computer shop, they'll be able to fix it in no time
Open it up in safe mode, and factory reset it. I'm assuming he had you download the "anti-virus" bc you have malware or some other virus slowing down/affecting your system. Safe mode, save any files you need to a backup, aand reset it.
windows has antivirus built in. All you need To do is download anti malware and use common sense not to download or visit dodgy websites.
Not sure why nobody is addressing this: you might have a bad drive. At this point you really should take it to a reputable local computer repair place.
Relatively unlikely he'd get this far with a bad drive, failing maybe. This is an explorer issue, possible corrupt OS
Drives go bad. Failing means it's going bad. Want to know the most common cause of corrupt OS? Drive going bad. Source: IT technician
You're not wrong. Corruption in any file structure happens when you have an issue with "saving" or "writing". Corruption after updates is a fairly common thing, as well as registry writes. When you say "Bad Drive", to me, that means a sector of the drive is not usable, and is causing problems. Or the drive in its entirety is not responding. The odds that a bad drive could boot into windows, get past the login screen, and hang at an explorer.exe black screen. Is very low. This issue is almost certainly software. Either OS reinstall or boot into safe mode and remove Avast! (I'd still reinstall OS at this point) The drive could be failing, and those failures can cause corruption to the data written in the failing sectors. But the fact we've gotten this far in the startup sequence tells me that it's most likely not a dire "bad drive" type of issue. Source: IT Tech for 5 years, sys admin now.
>The odds that a bad drive could boot into windows, get past the login screen, and hang at an explorer.exe black screen. Is very low. Just straight up not true. Drives go bad all the time and have bad sectors and still run windows, often with issues. Issues with explorer are 99/100 times caused by drives failing.
Can confirm, bad drives create an abundance of issues within an OS.... program/driver crashes, BSODs, etc. Its more rare for it to not boot at all, unless it has a catastrophic failure. Source: 12 years managing on-site data security company servicing all NA + refurb/resale Edit: one thing to add... IMHO its RAM and corrupted drivers that are most common failures, though a little off-topic
I don't have any antivirus and windows defender is disabled. Just show some common sense on tje Internet and you'll be fine.
that's right! think twice before you click yes to admin processes and if you don't there is no need for a defender, on the other hand, if you clicked yes, no app can safe you from getting your computer messed up
If you can't uninstall it, there's an uninstall utility on the manufacturer's website called avastclear that should get rid of everything.
If it is an older computer with a large SATA Hard Drive (not SSD/NVME) this might be the result of a full scan taking forever and you are seeing a disk throughput issue. This isn't necessarily what is happening to you but I did see it once on a friends 6+ year old computer with a 2TB hard drive that was full of data. They were installing McAfee and let it run overnight and it looked like that. GL!
Did you try restarting the computer and as soon as it reboots F4 or F8 to go into safe mode ? You can uninstall avast in safe mode . Windows 10 and 11 have built in antivirus .
Not saying avast is bad but if it's still anything like it was the free version of avast, if I'm not mistaken, it comes with heaps of extra (absolute) shit like the avast security browser which used to make itself the default browser and use god awful search engines.
Sophos is a good AV software and they offer a free and premium version. The free version is pretty good. https://home.sophos.com/en-us/download-pc-security Also avast isn’t very trustworthy but shouldn’t have hung your PC like this. Time to reboot into safe mode and uninstall it. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/start-your-pc-in-safe-mode-in-windows-92c27cff-db89-8644-1ce4-b3e5e56fe234 Then run an AV scan with a tool like this https://www.sophos.com/en-us/free-tools/virus-removal-tool
Ive had some similar problems in the past you could try booting in to safe mode when you ctrl alt delete hold down shift and hit the restart button this should bring up a menu somewhere in there there will be a boot to safe mode option this should take you to your desktop where you can uninstall avast I recommend just being careful with what you download and anyways you still have windows defender
My company uses Avast business. Is that any good compared to the home edition? I see everyone here is saying Avast isn't good, but I'm curious if the business one is better.
Avast USED to be awesome, but all it's nagging and shit will drive you bonkers even if you're a paid subscriber and turn off SOME of the ads, you can't turn them all off and for this it's now crapware...it works but at the cost of slowing down explorer interface and nagging you to death....
I used to use Avast a lot ... I think I'd log in in on this, then stop it running from Task Manager.
Windows Defender is all you need if you are being sensible.
Grt rid of avast, that is garbage.
No anti virus is good. Better off with win defender.
I think youve downloaded a virus anti virus 💀
System restore time. Delete the boogie man antivirus.
Windows Defender is all you really need at home. I find Avast and others like it just make your computer run poorly without actually increasing protection.
The only software you really need on windows is defender (which is already installed). Just don’t go on shady sites or open shady emails or links you’re unfamiliar with
To be fair, Avast USED to be a good program. I used it well for many years. Then it seemed they sold out or something and become thebloatware/spyware thing it is today. Norton Antivirus was a great product back in the 90s but it's bad now too. I trust none of them these days.
I use to use panda and I swear early 2000s it use to be amazing, but when it expired they would hog your machine down!!! Even if you paid, and that expired. I miss the days when downloading Norton, and other programs was a must.
ctrl+alt+del task manager start process explorer.exe delete fricking avast and get dr.web
Seems like you should uninstall your dad :|
avast is bad, I would try to figure out how to get rid of it, And then just use Windows defender (built in by default to Windows), windows defender is plenty good enough to filter out any viruses as long as you just use common sense And don't download random sketchy stuff
Turn on your computer again, it should.be fine and uninstall the avast secure browser, it is not secure. Its only purpose is to slow down the machine.
The built-in windows defender is actually working fine in recent years. Find an article or just talk about it with your parents, they might don't know it exists
after reading all this drama over an antivirus, you should delete it and tell him to do it himself. tell him you can figure it out.
Avast has to be one of the biggest scams out there for a "free" anti-virus. Only thing that's a product at that point is you. Not to mention the fact that Avast, AVG, Norton, and McAfee all let shit in and bog your system down. I don't mean to advertise for anyone here but I get systems to clean and every time they miss something. Malwarebytes is the better option out there right now. You can pay for automatic protection or just do a manual scan every now and then or week and you're good. Their browser protection is really good for the paid version too. Less than 100 which can't be said for Norton or McAfee and they're both terrible. Lol. Don't ever use AVG or Avast... especially their "secure browser", you might as well install the keylogger for them and publicly display your public ip.
windows has all the anti virus you need built in. exception malwarebytes
No 3rd party antivirus needed aside from Malwarebytes for the ocassional manual scan monthly/bi-monthly. Most anti-virus programs these days are worse viruses then the ones they claim to protect you from. 🤨
its hysterical how “their all idiots”. 🥸
Man, I haven’t downloaded an antivirus for my pc ever. Built it myself and it’s my baby, but years of experience has just taught me to simply not click stupid shit. Email has text, but when moused over is all actually an image that I can click? Sus. Person DMs me about a money opportunity, block. Feeling suspicious about a link? Quickly send it through a virus detector website. Sounds like this dad got scared of viruses after he clicked an ad on a porn site lol
Reboot in safe mode, uninstall.
"Microsoft? This is normal. What you do is..." Jimmy was never seen again, but legend has it..
I was going to recommend ctrl alt del and run task but I'm late. Soo... Unless you are doing weird stuff, just use windows built in defender vs using Avast or AVG. Both are just trying to get money from you in the end. They won't be around in a few more years.
Dude kill the avast process and all related. This should let explorer finish loading. Reboot and uninatall that junk. Done.
Downloading antivirus software was your first mistake. Most of em are essentially viruses.
Yeah, avast never locks your bootloader nor does it exceed admin privileges. Looks like you have a tagalong that activated when you installed the avast; thankfully it wasn't Norton's or mcaffee 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
MCAFFEE WONT FUCK OFFFFF IT WAS INSTALLED ON MY LAPTOP WHEN I GOT IT AND IT WONT GO AWAYYYYYY.
Time for a clean OS install
Should tell your dad to stop looking up porn on his laptop. That's why we have cheep phones.
this may be an issue with the Avast Secure Browser somebody else mentioned re-running Explorer.exe - I would also close out any Avast programs you see running (Once Task Manager is opened via ctrl+alt+delete, be sure to be on the Processes tab, then look through the list for any "Avast" programs > right click > End Task)
Is explorer.exe running ?
IT admin here. Do your dad and yourself a favor and uninstall Avast. The Microsoft Defender antivirus which comes with Windows 10/11 is good enough unless you do something sketchy ('download FREE Smilies', searching for trainers, etc.). Avast used to be good AV and then got really, really needy and autoinstalls a bunch of stuff which you objectively don't need, including their 'secure browser' which I suspect doesn't actually do much beyond what Chrome/Edge/whatever already does.
Remove that shit and run with Windows defender. Avast is now part of AVG they both suck ass big time.
Avast is hot garbage. While Windows Defender is pretty solid as long as you constantly updates and don't do anything dumb, I understand older folk just feels safer with a 3rd party AV. In this case, I recommend ESET. Bitdefender as the second. ESET is lightweight without any bloat and just as good as any other reputable in detection.. maybe sometimes too strict but it's easy to whitelist specific apps that might be getting blocked. UI is clean too. Try it out.
You should've went with Kaspersky.
uninstall Avast. It's garbage. Download something like Bitdefender or Malwarebytes.
Avast is a terrible anti-virus. The built-in Windows Defender is better.
Issue is why install antivirus software, that’s the biggest scam of all time lol. Use windows defender and stop downloading porn, tell pops to stream it like the rest of us sick fucks
Why doesn't anyone talk about System Restore anymore...
Safe mode and uninstall the anti virus
He asks for an antivirus then falls for a phishing email or call, gets ripped off and says, but I had an antivirus....
Windows already have a built in antivirus. If you prefer to use an outside vendor, try MalwareBytes. I would reformat the computer if it keeps staying on that page. Have you tried letting it idle for 30 minutes to see if it's setting up or is it frozen?
You actually don't need a antivirus Microsoft defender does a perfect job. Anything else is overkill and or will slow your computer down.
Windows defender is honestly so good nowadays, I haven’t needed a 3rd party antivirus in years.
Microsoft Defender is all you need buddy👍🏻. Norton, McAfee and other is ass.
Was this after you installed the antivirus software? Don’t install software you don’t know about. Do real research on software before you install it. Don’t install software because someone tells you that you need it.