An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I experienced this message when I attempted to upgrade to .677 on avast! Pro and a Vista computer.

I ended up uninstalling Pro, reinstalling Pro and the upgrade went well.

Just thought I would pass this on.

edit should have mentioned I tried 3 times before I gave up and uninstalled.

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I had some trouble updating to Pro 5.0.677 from the previous beta, too. Can’t remember any specific errors but when I clicked update, it just wouldn’t do anything. The update definitions also said it needed updating and did the same thing. It had been updating fine. I went to the add/remove and when I clicked on Avast, I was only presented with uninstall.

Uninstall/reinstall 5.0.677 seemed to have fixed the problem.

XP SP3
3G RAM
Avast Pro 5.0.677
Outpost FW 7.03

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@ jadinolf,

What was the [error] message you received out of curiosity?

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Check the subject of my post.

Every attempt to update the program gave the same message so- I uninstalled it, reinstalled it and all is now well.

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Got it…sorry I was a little slow when I made that post. :-X