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Hi, i just arrived home, turned my pc on and i'm having troubles with avast antivirus, when i try to play any video on youtube it blocks it and says it's a threat and won't play anything, also, facebook's chat doesn't show, i've had some issues since i installed Windows 8.1 on this lap 3 weeks ago, but this is the first time such a thing happens, got any lead?

 

I'm using Opera browser BTW...

Don't get mad, get even...

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Remove Avast!, it causes more problems than it fixes.
Just use windows defender.

 

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Hi, i just arrived home, turned my pc on and i'm having troubles with avast antivirus, when i try to play any video on youtube it blocks it and says it's a threat and won't play anything, also, facebook's chat doesn't show, i've had some issues since i installed Windows 8.1 on this lap 3 weeks ago, but this is the first time such a thing happens, got any lead?

I'm using Opera browser BTW...

Uninstall Avast (complete uninstall).

Restart PC.

Download newest version again.

Install Avast again.

Restart PC again.

Profit???

 
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Yea uninstall Avast and remove all settings. I personally don't use any antivirus, even disable Windows Defender because they just get in the way. If you really want it just reinstall it but only after uninstalling it.

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See if there's any illegitimate extensions in Opera.
Then run Malwarebytes.

Only after you've ran malwarebytes, should you uninstall Avast. This is to make sure that there really isn't a threat on your PC (most likely an extension in Opera that was automatically downloaded), before you remove avast to reinstall it.

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See if there's any illegitimate extensions in Opera.

Then run Malwarebytes.

Only after you've ran malwarebytes, should you uninstall Avast. This is to make sure that there really isn't a threat on your PC (most likely an extension in Opera that was automatically downloaded), before you remove avast to reinstall it.

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Remove Avast!, it causes more problems than it fixes.

Just use windows defender.

not this

Troubleshooting a pc will make you believe in gremlins.

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this

 

not this

Avast! causes so many problems. 

Like using 99% disk usage on a fresh install. Or causing updates to fail, leaving you with nothing but a black screen and a cursor, or so many false positives that you can't even use your browser (Not saying that's what's going on here, but it could be). 

In any case, third party AV's are generally crap; slow, useless, heavy, and generally terrible programs. 

 

 

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Phones; Daily drivers: Nexus 6P 64GB/iPhone 6 (Music), Apple Watch, Apple AirPods.

Laptop: 2015 Macbook Pro 13, 8GB of RAM, 2.7Ghz i5, 240GB Apple SSD. 

 

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Plex Server: i7 3770, Gigabyte Board, 16GB DDR3 1600, Asus Strix GTX 1050ti 4GB, 120GB SSD Boot Drive, 8 x 3TB Seagate Barracuda, Rosewill RSV-R4000 With 2 Rosewill Hot Swap 4x Backplane Bays, 1050 Watt Corsair HX Series PSU,Hyper T2, Windows 10 Pro 

 

I also do Youtube, check me out!

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Avast! causes so many problems. 

Like using 99% disk usage on a fresh install. Or causing updates to fail, leaving you with nothing but a black screen and a cursor, or so many false positives that you can't even use your browser (Not saying that's what's going on here, but it could be). 

In any case, third party AV's are generally crap; slow, useless, heavy, and generally terrible programs. 

 

sounds like you have a shitty pc, I've used avast for the past 7 years and never had any such ridiculous nonsense happen. 

Troubleshooting a pc will make you believe in gremlins.

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sounds like you have a shitty pc, I've used avast for the past 7 years and never had any such ridiculous nonsense happen. 

*Sigh*.

Just because it doesn't happen for you, doesn't mean it's not going to happen.

I deal with hundreds of computers a week, I think I have a pretty large testing size of computers. 

Computers ranging to powerful desktops and laptops to $300-400 best buy specials; any of which have a seemingly 50/50 chance of working fine/going horribly horribly wrong. 

 

 

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I7 4790K @4.5 Ghz 1.294V

VALIDATION, MSI Z97 Gaming 7, 24GB DDR3 1600, Asus Strix 1070 8GB OC@ 2.2Ghz, Corsair graphite series 760T (Black), Cooler master V850, NH-D15 w/LNA ,1TB Samsung 850 Evo,  480GB Sandisk Ultra II SSD, 3TB Seagate Barracuda x 3, 1 TB WD Passport (Backup drive), 2 TB WD Passport (Backup Drive 2),  Windows 10 Pro x64 (uhg), Logitech G900 Chaos (Main), Steelseries Rival (FADE) (Courtesy of Edzel Yago, Thanks Ed), Steelsieres Rival 300 Hyperbeast Special Edition, Coolermaster Quickfire TKL (MX Blue), Razer Blackwidow Tournament edition (Greens).  Audio: Sennheiser HD598 SE, Edifier S1000DB, AudioEngine D1 DAC; Yamaha MG06X Mixer & AudioTechnica AT2020.

 

Phones; Daily drivers: Nexus 6P 64GB/iPhone 6 (Music), Apple Watch, Apple AirPods.

Laptop: 2015 Macbook Pro 13, 8GB of RAM, 2.7Ghz i5, 240GB Apple SSD. 

 

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Plex Server: i7 3770, Gigabyte Board, 16GB DDR3 1600, Asus Strix GTX 1050ti 4GB, 120GB SSD Boot Drive, 8 x 3TB Seagate Barracuda, Rosewill RSV-R4000 With 2 Rosewill Hot Swap 4x Backplane Bays, 1050 Watt Corsair HX Series PSU,Hyper T2, Windows 10 Pro 

 

I also do Youtube, check me out!

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7 years hundreds of thousands of computers and still no such nonsense has ever happened to any computer i've ever worked on. ever.

Troubleshooting a pc will make you believe in gremlins.

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7 years hundreds of thousands of computers and still no such nonsense has ever happened to any computer i've ever worked on. ever.

Whatever man xD

How much are they paying you? :) :) :)

 

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I7 4790K @4.5 Ghz 1.294V

VALIDATION, MSI Z97 Gaming 7, 24GB DDR3 1600, Asus Strix 1070 8GB OC@ 2.2Ghz, Corsair graphite series 760T (Black), Cooler master V850, NH-D15 w/LNA ,1TB Samsung 850 Evo,  480GB Sandisk Ultra II SSD, 3TB Seagate Barracuda x 3, 1 TB WD Passport (Backup drive), 2 TB WD Passport (Backup Drive 2),  Windows 10 Pro x64 (uhg), Logitech G900 Chaos (Main), Steelseries Rival (FADE) (Courtesy of Edzel Yago, Thanks Ed), Steelsieres Rival 300 Hyperbeast Special Edition, Coolermaster Quickfire TKL (MX Blue), Razer Blackwidow Tournament edition (Greens).  Audio: Sennheiser HD598 SE, Edifier S1000DB, AudioEngine D1 DAC; Yamaha MG06X Mixer & AudioTechnica AT2020.

 

Phones; Daily drivers: Nexus 6P 64GB/iPhone 6 (Music), Apple Watch, Apple AirPods.

Laptop: 2015 Macbook Pro 13, 8GB of RAM, 2.7Ghz i5, 240GB Apple SSD. 

 

Spoiler

Plex Server: i7 3770, Gigabyte Board, 16GB DDR3 1600, Asus Strix GTX 1050ti 4GB, 120GB SSD Boot Drive, 8 x 3TB Seagate Barracuda, Rosewill RSV-R4000 With 2 Rosewill Hot Swap 4x Backplane Bays, 1050 Watt Corsair HX Series PSU,Hyper T2, Windows 10 Pro 

 

I also do Youtube, check me out!

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Whatever man xD

How much are they paying you? :) :) :)

I wish. Shit I'd shill for them, I've never had any issue at all with it. ever.

Troubleshooting a pc will make you believe in gremlins.

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