Hi Petrina and Martin, I have used Avast for many years now and would still choose it over the main-stream products such as Norton or Macaffee which I will tell you from my many calls over the time I have been in this job have constantly showed up Norton and Macaffee to cause lots of problems. Lots of people are using Avast successfully and continue to use it. All that is wrong here with Petrinas Avast is that it needs a new serial number which I have given below. Below that is the instructions for installing this serial number as well. Avast Serial: W0864744H1400A0611-YJ78AJLV How to enter the serial. 1. On the desktop press letter "A" or arrow around till you locate the Avast icon. Now press enter key. 2. When avast opens up it will begin performing a memory scan, you can tab key once to the "stop memory scan button" and hit spacebar on it to stop this process. 3. When memory scan has stopped, tab to the "register button" and press spacebar. 4. Now copy the serial number from above and paste it directly into this edit box. 5. Tab to the ok button and press spacebar then press spacebar once more after the message comes up that you have successfully entered your serial number. 6. Alt + f4 to close and you're done. Paul. From: vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Trodden Sent: 06 August 2009 22:36 To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vip_students] Re: avast Hi Petrina. I know a few people who have had problems with that avast. they were getting a lot of warning notices with it and it also blocked a lot of stuff on them. my advice to you would be to remove avast and buy a anti-virus software like norton of mcafee. i use norton myself and never had a problem with it in the past 4 years. your jaws should work on both home and professional version of xp. Regards Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: Petrina Finn <mailto:petrinafinn@xxxxxxxxxx> To: vip <mailto:vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> students Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 9:31 PM Subject: [vip_students] avast hi my computer has avast on it. when I switch on the machine a pop up comes up to tell me it needs to be updated. when I click on this it offers me a version for about 40 or 50 euros. Is there any way I can update this fre or do I just go ahead and buy this? thanks in advance Petrina _____ I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter <http://www.spamfighter.com/len> . We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 35 of my spam emails to date. The Professional version does not have this message. ******************************************************************** NOTICE: The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient you should not use, disclose, distribute or copy any of the content of it or of any attachment; you are requested to notify the sender immediately of your receipt of the email and then to delete it and any attachments from your system. NCBI endeavours to ensure that emails and any attachments generated by its staff are free from viruses or other contaminants. However, it cannot accept any responsibility for any such which are transmitted. We therefore recommend you scan all attachments. Please note that the statements and views expressed in this email and any attachments are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of NCBI ********************************************************************