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Post Date: 2012-07-21
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    Posted: 21 Jul 2012 at 11:52am
Hi guys,

I just got my Marauder level 1 yesterday, and it runs Skyrim on ultra perfectly at 1920x1080. That's good! But I installed avast and not much else, and since then my pc has been getting BSOD and acting incredibly strange for a new pc. Does anyone know if avast is known to seriously mess with your pc? I uninstalled it in safe mode, so I'll let you know if it remedies the problem over time. Will uninstalling be enough, or should I roll back to a system restore point? Will that delete my installed games?

Thanks!
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Anti-Virus programs can cause issues sometimes, if the issue goes away after you uninstalled it, then you should be fine, try to use a different anti-virus program like AVG Free?

Also, if you still get BSOD issues, try a system restore to a point before you installed AVAST.
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Very odd, certainly not impossible, because as mentioned anti-viruses can do weird things. That being said however, I have used Avast! for years and never once had any reason to believe it was causing any issues. I left AVG after it did screw up my entire Windows installation in a single update (Never have I seen as much e-rage as I did on AVG's forum when they released that update).

But yeah, please keep us updated, I'm curious to see if it was the culprit.


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I downloaded avast, and I can play games and such fine, but when I try to shut down windows it just hangs and freezes on the update and says it needs to install 86 (!) updates, which is strange for a pc I got yesterday. Have to do a forced shutdown just to turn it off. Before I uninstalled avast earlier today I left the pc on and came back with a blue screen saying something about memory allocation. At times the pc won't start or shut down correctly so I don't know what the deal is. I would like to restore it to an earlier point but none of my restore points from yesterday are showing up.
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It could be something else, try to remove your overclock to see if the issue goes away (load BIOS defaults). If you've tried that, re-seat the memory sticks and video card(s).
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