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I actually googled it yesterday to try to figure it out myself, but then read back to find it in the thread.
That's interesting. I need to disable tamper protection in Norton for an RP to complete successfully. That may have changed in recent versions as I just automatically do that now.
I don't know; I've been mainly using restore points since Win 7 was released. Never once did I ever have to disable any AV for it to work, whether creating or restoring. And I've not seen any issues under Windows 8/8.1 running with NIS 2013 or 14 now.
Must be one of those freak things you encountered
I'm running Avast and I have no problems creating new Restore Points.
With reference to my earlier posts, I do manually create Restore Points in addition to the automatic system created ones.
I used one last week without any issues.
I just don't rely on them.
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For the OP -
Here is a good way to attempt to avoid the 'extras' - Avoid extras when installing free software
And it is perfectly legal for anyone to couple freeware together, which you agree to download because you clicked the link that they offered. It is illegal for people to intentionally install malware on your computer, though I suspect with our broad definition of malware, some of it may even be legal