avast 6 conflict with Vista Validation, workaround or punt?

This thread lightly covers a rising number of Windows Vista invalidations apparently due to a conflict with latest releases of Avast 6.x
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/...6B3-2517-41BC-8FAD-4C036F2F4AC8?prof=required

predictably neither MS or the Avast team are in any hurry to patch things.

1. Do any of you know of a sound workaround for this
2. If not, what, in Majorgeek's corrupt-system-fix experience is a great choice to replace AVAST free edition??

I've used AVAST religiously on all types of installs and very very seldom had any issues, and those were not serious. This one's ugly. I had a squeaky clean Windows Vista Business Edition setup on a Dell Optiplex 755 using Dell's install media, and it was running flawlessly. then "outta the blue" I get a Windows validation Processor error and then the loop... attempt validation [re-validation], stuck in loop, just like others report.

all advice gratefully received.

z

 

Hi zapp,

I looked into this one a week or so ago and it's an area of conflict, I'd settle for MSE for the moment, you never know what the next batch of Windows/MSFT updates might do to other security programs.

 

This thread http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=238141 shows the trouble I was having with the same thing.


#17 shows what I did to get mine to activate.

 

Thanks to both of you.
I read the other thread also - my situation is different, at least symptomatically.
The system was fully updated, and had no problem with activation/validation until something changed; either the install of printer drivers or the loading of Office 2007. Or something else - maybe an Avast update [data files]. Windows Update is turned off [ i think its a bad idea on Vista. prefer manual updates, selectively].

At any rate, I'm not married to any of these anti-programs. I had read that in lab testing [I think this was CNET or PC World] MSE ranked dead last in ability to detect malicious patterns. Also, it did not take me long to find the exact same validation problem for Vista, attributed to MSE, on the Microsoft site. [social.microsoft.com tech thread]. It was searching such things that triggered me to ask the question here since MG does so much work to help people with after-the-fact infections.

Is our typical remedial advice here, after cleaning up a trojan mess or rootkit damage, to "pick any one of the ant-viral packages from our download page" ??

Also... forgot about this one... I had a case of MSE interfering with Live Mail :-D ... on a newish Compaq Win7 notebook.... go figger