Major Bug Report

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Roger Jackson

Shortly after installing the Beta various applications
started acting oddly as if I had clicked on the wrong
link; then I noticed the mouse pointer behaving oddly,
jittering around; the mouse then slowed down along with
the application(s) I was using to glacial slowness. The
computer then froze and reboots brought the same problems
including, I noticed, that my AVG antivirus had been
mysteriously turned off. I went into DOS command mode and
the mouse still would not work. The only thing I could
do was shut down then backup the whole computer, through
DOS, using a Ghost backup. When I rebooted I removed the
beta and also Skype which I had loaded just previous to
the trouble and which I suspected, and ran the AVG anti-
virus. After a short while the problem came back. I
suspected the mouse and went out and bought a new one. I
then did the Ghost thing again and rebooted with the new
mouse. Everything went fine for two days. I reasoned
the problem must be Skype so I re-installed the Microsoft
Anti-Spyware Beta. After 30 mins the same things started
to happen again!!! I then had to remove the Beta yet
again, backup with Ghost, remove then add back the mouse,
run the anti-virus, then reboot. Thank goodness, it
worked again. Obviously there is a major conflict between
the the Beta, possibly AVG, and the mouse driver.
Phew!
Roger
 
Roger Jackson said:
Shortly after installing the Beta various applications
started acting oddly as if I had clicked on the wrong
link; then I noticed the mouse pointer behaving oddly,
jittering around; the mouse then slowed down along with
the application(s) I was using to glacial slowness. The
computer then froze and reboots brought the same problems
including, I noticed, that my AVG antivirus had been
mysteriously turned off. I went into DOS command mode and
the mouse still would not work. The only thing I could
do was shut down then backup the whole computer, through
DOS, using a Ghost backup. When I rebooted I removed the
beta and also Skype which I had loaded just previous to
the trouble and which I suspected, and ran the AVG anti-
virus. After a short while the problem came back. I
suspected the mouse and went out and bought a new one. I
then did the Ghost thing again and rebooted with the new
mouse. Everything went fine for two days. I reasoned
the problem must be Skype so I re-installed the Microsoft
Anti-Spyware Beta. After 30 mins the same things started
to happen again!!! I then had to remove the Beta yet
again, backup with Ghost, remove then add back the mouse,
run the anti-virus, then reboot. Thank goodness, it
worked again. Obviously there is a major conflict between
the the Beta, possibly AVG, and the mouse driver.
Phew!
Roger
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I run AVG 7 free version and have not had a problem.

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I also found that it repeatedly closed down the True
Vector in Zone Alarm Pro. Maybe that's the problem?

Roger
 
I've seen others report an issue with specific versions of Zone Alarm--what
version are you running?
 
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