I’ve got avast! Internet Security installed on my laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium (with all the avast! updates switched on and everything up-to-date when I went to the office this morning), and today I started getting a warning symbol over the avast! icon in my system tray indicating the firewall was switched off.
When I open avast! to turn the firewall on, I get a pop-up dialogue that says “Unable to start Firewall!!”. Nothing else. No error codes or anything.
I ran a complete scan and avast! pronounced the computer clean.
I have restarted the computer four times already (twice after switching off, removing the battery and power cord and waiting an hour), but I still cannot switch the firewall on. As a temporary measure I have turned the Windows firewall back on, but am pretty unhappy having to do this.
I don’t use the laptop on my company’s network since the MIS team we have are complete morons and the whole system is a digital typhoid station or viruses, worms and malware. What few file transfers I do at work use text e-mail sent to my mobile that’s then copied and pasted into a plain text file and Bluetoothed to my laptop.
Can anyone possibly give me some pointers on how to fix this issue? I want my AIS back!
Thanks in advance.
bwob