[WT-support] Win-Test problems caused by "Avast"

[Harry Herr, W6HH]

  Hi Ron,

You (and others with 'AVAST' problems should take a look at 'Microsoft 
Security Essentials'.  I've used it with ZERO problems on 2 win7 and 1 
XP systems for a couple of years.  It is also FREE.

73 - Harry

On 07/16/11 13:26, Ron Fraser wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I have been having problems with the config contest drop-down menus in 
> win-Test 3 since installing "AVAST" ver 6 free antivirus software.
> I have spent a lot of time trying to suss this out, with a lot of 
> input from Bob N6TV, but to no avail. However, Bob suggested a work 
> around which involved highlighting the entry and then inputting the 
> apppropriate letter from the keyboard. As an example, for Iota 
> contest, I highlighted the contest list and kept hitting the "i" key 
> until the Iota name appeared. I had to use the same system for all the 
> other menu lists.
> Today, I had the brainwave to disable Avast and see what happened. The 
> issue was immediately resolved and I now had the drop-down menus 
> working. So, once the relevant contest had been configured, I could  
> run Win-Test then restart Avast.  My trials have not yet shown any 
> other problems once WT is running but I imagine there could well be 
> further problems with other menus. One other strange thing was that I 
> had W-T on a usb stick which ran normally and was not affected by Avast.
> I should mention that previously I had been using AVG for years but 
> after a recent update, up popped a warning  stating that it had found 
> a "virus" within Win-Test. What was happening was that it had 
> determined that wt.exe was a virus with the end result that W-T would 
> not run. It was called win32/heur which has many mentions on the web 
> but is not included in any virus databases.  I can only assume that 
> this is one of these false "viruses.  I noticed recently that there 
> had been a support post about win32/heur but there was no feedback.  I 
> should add that Avast seems to work well apart from the hiccup with 
> Win-Test but I will report this anomaly to their support people.
> Hope this might save someone else from spending fruitless hours 
> looking for an answer in a similar situation.
> 73, Ron GM0NTL - GM4W (contest call)
>
>
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