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whiggs:

--- Quote from: Boggin on November 11, 2015, 02:58:52 pm ---Good to see you have found the program responsible.

Was that through the laborious install check method ?

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Actually no.  The program is a cloud-based antivirus solution and compares the files it scans on your computer to the hashes stored in virustotal.com's database.  Not only that, it doesn't just delete any old file it marks as a virus, but actually ASKS the user and does not prevent access to the file after it has been whitelisted.  According to the information on the programs site, the security software can be installed in 2 different ways: one without offline Antivirus or with offline antivirus.  Since the offline version is coupled with Clam win as its offline virus protection (an AV I'm not fond of by any stretch of the imagination), I installed the version without offline antivirus.  The documentation on secureAplus further states that when installed without offline AV, that it can be used alongside almost any other antivirus solution as a "second line of defense".  So I installed avast.  When I did, I noticed that windows explorer started crashing on me.  Suspicious at this point, I uninstalled secureAplus, and Eureka.  No more crashes or blue screens.  Also, they advertise on their webpage that they are currently gathering testers for the beta of the Windows 10 compatible version.  But am I glad I finally found the cause!  I like windows 10, but it seems to be one-sided, because it has smacked me around quite a bit.

Boggin:
Shane doesn't like Avast because he has experienced problems with that, but it remains a popular free AV program supported with Windows Firewall.

Win 10 is still a work in progress and 3rd party vendors are still playing catch up, although Symantec were pretty quick in updating Norton 360 which I use, to be compatible with Win 10.

I've heard that the Threshold2 update has been causing problems for Chrome users, so that will be a headache for some.

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