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

[Ron Fraser]

Hi Harry,
Unfortunately I cannot run MSE on my old shack computer due to a well
known issue :-)

73, Ron
On 17 July 2011 00:39, Harry Herr, W6HH <w6hh at hughes.net> wrote:

> **
> 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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