russell_shaq

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Hello,
Hi all, I have been using Avast 4.8 for a long time now without any problems, I installed Avast 5 yesterday with catastrophic results. My computer got as far as the desk-top and then seized-up, I wasn't able to open control panel to uninstall it either, plus, no other applications would open at all. I eventually had to boot in Safe Mode, and then uninstall Avast from add-remove-programs, I then rebooted, after that all was OK, so I just reinstalled Avast 4.8 without any problems. This has happened on two separate machines so far, I just cannot get this damn program to work on any of my computers. I am using Spybot, and I was wondering if it was clashing with Avast in some way ?
 
They shouldn't be conflicting. I've got Avast 5 on an XP PC and a Windows 7 PC, running along side of Spybot. I don't have them on a Vista PC, but I haven't had any issues on my PCs.

Try running the Ccleaner registry cleaner, and combofix in safe mode with networking.