Free Avast 2014 adding advertisement on outgoing emails

[Hermskii]

Good luck with it Nameless. I hope it does what you need it to. I'm still anxious and willing to remote in and run a series of checks on your PC for you. the whole scan list would take about 3 hours not including me trying to download and install the programs to your PC.

[a nameless entity]

Microsoft Security Essentials installed nicely. It's very plain Jane. But it seems that the scanner goes into a very thorough mode when you choose which folders you want to have checked. I chose to have both drives C and D looked at as folders, expecting the scan to take about as long as Avast used to do, which was 2-3 hours. The scan took over six hours. Nothing was found. I'm happy.

Too bad support for Windows XP ends on April 8th, 2014. I suppose that will include MSE.

[Hermskii]

Too bad support for Windows XP ends on April 8th, 2014. I suppose that will include MSE.

You make a good point here but I think it will keep going. It wasn't just part of XP. It came with Vista and Windows 7 and 8 too I'm pretty sure.

[a nameless entity]

Hey how about that. I finally got a reply from Avast that might actually be useful.

The fellow suggests that I go and download the latest version of Cr*pCleaner. He assures me in the email that it won't delete anything it shouldn't. All I remember about that program is that you had to be super careful about how you ran it, or you were screwed. Perhaps the later versions are more idiot proof? I suppose I should risk it anyway. But even if it fixes this PC up nicely, I'm not so sure Avast is good for this underpowered unit any more. Hmmmm. This needs considering though.

[David]

The fellow suggests that I go and download the latest version of Cr*pCleaner. He assures me in the email that it won't delete anything it shouldn't. All I remember about that program is that you had to be super careful about how you ran it, or you were screwed. Perhaps the later versions are more idiot proof? I suppose I should risk it anyway. But even if it fixes this PC up nicely, I'm not so sure Avast is good for this underpowered unit any more. Hmmmm. This needs considering though.

I am just willy nilly about CCleaner. So far I have not had any issues. I use CCleaner once a week and then I use Malwarebytes or SuperAntiPyware to scan afterwards. To make sure I do not have unwanted guests.

But to get back on the CCleaner.......WILLY NILLY with no care in the world.

[Dragon]

I have avast 2014, I pay for it good anti virus program