Vista - Problems with Nod32 virus protection.

Hey guys. I have been having some trouble today and was hoping that someone might be able to help me out.

Last night I downloaded Nod32 which is a virus protection program. I scanned my computer while I was asleep. The program cleaned my computer and everything worked fine.

I use a program called xfire which is a messenger program kind of like MSN or AIM. A few hours after the scan was completed I tried to launch xfire. I got this error: "Com Initialization Failed" That is all that the error window says, and the window is simply titled "Error". Once I close the error window the program does show up in my task bar, however it seems to be slightly greyed out. When I right click its icon on the task bar the drop down menu comes up but is entirely blacked out. There is no text or anything it is all black. When i click something in the menu a new error comes up and kind of flashes on my screen, but has no text and not even a title. It is just a small blank window that flashes and then goes away. After that xfire disappears from my taskbar.

When I launch the program after the "Com initialization failed' error comes up and is closed, a strange box appears on my screen. I can only see it on my wallpaper, it doesn't show up on top of other programs. It is a white rectangle that is quite small. Maybe 120 x 40 and in the center of this rectangle is a very very small light blue square. To the left of the light blue square is a larger grey square.

I have never seen an error like this before and have no idea what caused it. Other people on the xfire forums have had the same error, but I have tried all of the suggestions on those forums and nothing has worked.

I assume nod32 changed something in my settings because xfire always worked prior to installing nod32. I did, however, uninstall nod32, and that did not fix the problem. And yes I am running as administrator please do not suggest that...

Does anyone know what could be causing this problem?

Here is a link to a thread about it on the xfire forums, but none of the suggestions there fixed the problem: Xfire

I can't offer a solution but it is probably just a coincidence that when you installed Nod you also had a glitch with xfire.
I read through the link you provided. Have you posted on their forum?
Could it be one of the Xfire plugins causing problems?
BTW, what anti virus security did you have before Nod & why did you get rid of it?

im sure you have but uninstall then reinstall x fire, if possible provide a screenshot of this problem

I've already reinstalled xfire and that did not solve the problem. Yes I did post in the thread that I linked, and I had no security before installing nod32.

If you were not running an anti virus program on your computer prior to Nod it is likely that you may have picked up some malware etc.
This could be the cause of the problem you have experienced.
Is your computer otherwise behaving properly?
Are you using the Windows inbuilt Firewall & Defender to help protect your computer?
Make sure that Nod is kept updated.
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