Avast! killed my internet access...

[Lyte]

well... sort of...

I was on the internet last night and all was fine! I wake up this morning and I have no internet. My ISP is Verizon and I'm running with FIOS. So, I check the connections, reboot the modem (twice), checked the box in the garage and nothing appears to be amiss!

I called Verizon, sat on hold for a few minutes and was finally connected to Matt. We ran though the usual stuff (which I had done) but then we had me log into safe mode. Oops... forgot about that option! And sure enough, I was connected to the internet! So, Matt suggests it's probably my security software which likely updated overnight and then reset my security settings. It did! I took the security setting down a notch and voila... I'm back in business!

I'm a big believe of having your Window's software auto update, but I'm not so sure about non-windows software. I changed my avast! settings from auto update to "notify when updates are available."

[dr911]

Hey Lyte,

I HAD Avast om my PC a bout 2 years ago. This piece of "crap" done all kinds of thing to my sytems. I then "deleted" it, even going into the registry, deleting anything that had Avast connected to it. This is why I use AVG Free Edition and update it when I want to !!!

[Lyte]

Really?! Hmm... this is the first time it's misbehaved. I took it off of auto updated. Hopefully that'll remedy the problem.

[blackthinboy]

LOL,
I am still using avast, but i see the problem like you say,
Maybe i also need to use other anti virus. I thinks want use AVG back.