antivirus download failure on XP
hi there chaps.
so my friend (oh yeah, right, your "friend"...) has put together a second PC since upgrading his primary. all the bits inside have worked in various combinations with each other previously.
we used a completely fresh XP home edition install (legit) - all fine. installed the current versions of drivers for motherboard (network and sound card are onboard) and graphics card. then tried downloading avast for the antivirus, but it failed. we removed it and tried AVG instead, this too failed. decided that antivirus was less important since we only wanted to use the box to play bf2142. this game was duly installed along with skype which both worked fine, except when the box started to blue screen. investigation seemed to point to something called DCOM (connected to CLSID in event viewer).
we decided to completely reinstall xp again, following all the steps mentioned above with the same result.
reinstalling freshly again, we decided to sort out the antivirus download issue first to make sure it wasnt some kind of virus (though how is beyond me...). so at this point we have a new xp install (with full format), tried avast, avg and elivira all of which start to install but at some point give a failure message. googling advised trying an online scan (panda / housecall), but even they seemed to need a download which also failed. as mentioned, the skype download tried previously worked fine - it only seems to be antivirus-based downloads...!
i suppose what i am asking for is help to determine a solution for the antivirus issue, and ultimately what the blue screening is about, assuming that the antivirus does not solve that problem.
i hope some of you clever chaps can help, and thanks for reading this!
cheers,
chou
Last edited by chousaru; 27-04-2009 at 08:01 PM.
Reason: spelling
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