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[LitusSaxonicum]

Has anyone else come across this one? The free Avast antivirus doesn't do it, but on upgrading (i.e. paying!) it installs something called Deep Screen - and I don't know how to turn it off.

I normally use Kaspersky, but this was installed with a Windows reinstall on a new hard drive when I was abroad.

Eddie

[davidb]

Yes, I have similar problems with Avast Free.

It thinks my codes are "suspicious" and wants to move them to Quarantine unless I tell the code not to scan the folders containing them.

The problem is it won't then let me archive my files to another place (e.g. a backup disc) without removing the executables first.

There doesn't seem anyway to control (turn off!) the heuristic scanning from the Free interface either.

I will probably give up with Avast Free and switch to something else. I was using Kaspersky too with no problems. But my licence has expired and I am waiting to get a new laptop before I renew.
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[LitusSaxonicum]

David,

Many thanks. I deleted Avast - I couldn't work out how to disable it - and use the free Microsoft thing on that laptop.

My laptop was wrecked by security at Gatwick who turned it on so that when I got it out of its case in Corfu it was steaming and wouldn't work properly. A nice guy in Corfu town put in a new hard drive and reinstalled Windows for me, but somehow it's not the same.

Eddie

[JohnCampbell]

Eddie,

I had a similar problem recently when I used sleep (or hibernate ?) with my HP notebook when finishing at home, then went to work and found my bag very warm. The notebook appeared to be off; no power lights on and no response. but it was cooking and the only way I could stop it was to remove the battery and leave it to cool down. Fortunately there was no damage which surprised me, given it is a SSD disk.

Now, I always shut it down and never just close the lid.

John

[LitusSaxonicum]

Hi John,

I'll bet the boot time is good with an SSD. My laptop is a Lenovo S205 with Win 7 (64). It used to brag via a bit of pre-installed software that it rebooted in 6 seconds, which I naively imagined was true - it was certainly fast. The replacement drive is similar to the original fitment, and is much slower. Eventually back in the UK I worked out that the machine was originally set to hibernate when you asked it to turn off!

It doesn't have the switch that does a power off when the lid is shut.

Security at Gatwick turned it on, and handed it back with the lid shut, and I was too busy getting my belt, watch, spectacles, shoes, money, passport, ticket etc back in the right places to check, and anxious not to drop the laptop in the process, so keen to get it in its sleeve.

The problem with being a somewhat overweight elderly grey-haired Brit is that you just look like a terrorist I suppose!

The more fancy you make your application, with abilities to interact with the registry, the more it looks like malicious software to some antivirus applications. Something like the effect of my appearance on airport security, I suppose.

Eddie

[IanLambley]

Try Grecian 2000! That may solve one problem.

Regarding lids and hibernation, I find that if you are not in a switched on and operating state then closing the lid does not initiate the hibernation.

So if you have left your machine idle and the screen has blanked, then the lid closure will not cause a hibernation and the computer gets hot in its padded bag until the battery is completely flat. If it is in the middle of a restore from a hibernation then re-hibernation may also not work.

The trick is to bring it fully back to an interactive operating mode and then close the lid but if the lid does not have a switch then the time out must initiate the hibernation.

Regards
Ian

PS you are only elderly if you accept it! Otherwise the heart failure is caused by not partially accepting it.

[davidb]

You can change the configuration so closing the lid turns off the laptop.
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