I understand and am aware of your point about two AV programs. They did play
well together for a long time like a couple of years. My guess is an update
by one or the other broke things and Deb and I started to experience
problems. Since MSE was the one that was having seizures it was the one to
go. MSE also did not originally include an antivirus if I recall correctly. 
Brad

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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gregg Pfaff

Yes, but it's a valid point about the second AV. I'm no expert but, I've
seen this before when people ask me for help on a similar problem and I find
they have 2 or more AV's running and fighting each other. I get them down to
one AV and it solves the problem.
Gregg

On 3/4/2012 2:54 PM, Brad Loomis wrote:
> I'd say it's pretty clear to me that since I've uninstalled MSE I 
> haven't had a single freeze, 20 minute boot time , hang, or any other 
> issues that most likely MSE was the culprit. MSE wanted to scan 
> repeatedly even after completing scans within a matter of hours. Sum 
> ting was clearly amok. As I said before Safe Mode things work just 
> fine. I previously had disabled most startups in Msconfig, looked at 
> all possibilities. I've been running Avast Pro for about six months 
> w/o any issues. I have nothing against MSE, and I'll try a reinstall again
eventually.
> Brad 

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