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<font size="+1"><font face="Times New Roman">Hi Ron,<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
73 - Harry<br>
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On 07/16/11 13:26, Ron Fraser wrote:
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<div>Hi guys,</div>
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<div>I have been having problems with the config contest drop-down
menus in win-Test 3 since installing "AVAST" ver 6 free
antivirus software.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Hope this might save someone else from spending fruitless
hours looking for an answer in a similar situation. </div>
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<div>73, Ron GM0NTL - GM4W (contest call)</div>
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