Thank you for your replies :-*. I guess you are right. I won’t use immediate shutdown again. I’ve decided to use safe shutdown with Evidence Eliminator and when I used it this evening, there was no system error with Avast. I’m a bet hasty I guess. Women :-[
I havent had any more of those annoying errors since I made the changes outlined in the following post:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=11945.msg110789#msg110789
Thank you.That’s really brilliant but unfortunately I’m not Service Pack 2. Anyway the problem is gone as long as I use safe shutdown.
Love, neb
A word of advice, if you’re not using SP2, you should be. 
I have recently installed avast! home edition. I have not experienced the ashServ.exe crash, but now my machine frequently fails to power down after closing windows. I wonder whether this is connected to the ashServ crash. The problem does not always occur, and I am coming to the conclusion that it rather depends how long the computer has been running.
Has anyone else experienced the same problem?
I’ve solved the system shutdown problem. It disappeared when I unchecked ‘Generate VRDB only when screensaver is running’. I now have to determine whether the same problem occurs if I select ‘Generate VRDB when computer is idle’.
yep, the error still there.
IMO, i can get the error if i shutdown (start → turn off computer → turn off) the system very fast.
some of u can try to shutdown as fast as u can to see that is error happen or not.
this error happen 1 per 6 shutdown.
again, IMO…
WinXP SP2
P4 2.0Ghz
256MB RAM
Laptop
What do you mean? :
Turning on (loggin) and as fast as we can start to shut down?
If so, this will obviously brings problems as the initialization scripts won’t be ended and the shutdown ones will be running, messing Windows startup and shutdown…
not like that. just turn off your computer as usual after the system running for 2-3 hours. just shut it fast.
maybe i should try this changes untill next program update:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=11945.msg110789#msg110789
It has worked for some of us but, not all. 
Sorry to be the stupid guy here… but what is shutting down fast? A ‘tweaked’ shut down (changing some registry keys, etc.)?
Do we have to change anything in normal shut down of Windows?
I’ve had the problem enough where it is kind of “embarassing” for me to be talking up how great avast is and then on a shut down it does this crash. However it doesn’t happen very often as everyone says.
sorebie,
Did you tyry the fix mentioned in the following post?
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=11945.msg110789#msg110789
bob,
it is such a rare occurence that it isn’t an issue. So I haven’t even bothered to look at your fix, I just wanted to put my name on the “petition” as one having this problem as well.
Please note, it’s NOT my fix. It wasn’t a major issue for me either but since the fix was available, I tried it and it worked for me.
I haven’t had another ashServ crash since.
I got it on almost every shutdown with .652 but .665 fixed it for me.
Same here. The fix worked and the problem has not recurred since. Perhaps it only works for us Bobs?javascript:replaceText(’ :)', document.postmodify.message);
Smiley
Regards
BobH (Galen)
I downloaded and installed the home version and have recently started experiencing crashes for ashWebSv.exe.
Are we talking of the same executable?
I use Win XP professional and the crashes have been automatically reported to Microsoft whenever I have been connected to the internet!
Should I report the next crash here too?
Can you see if this link could help you on understanding webshield working? http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=1647.msg100190#msg100190
FAQ about WebShield: http://www.avast.com/eng/webshield_issues.html#idt_6874
WebShield incompatibilites are related to any application that uses the HTTP port (80) to route some non-HTTP (or partially-HTTP) data (including custom HTTP commands etc). See Vlk’s explanation here: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=11997.msg101376#msg101376
Did you allow ashWebSv.exe to connect the Internet into your firewall settings?
If you disable the Web Shield provider (into avast On-access providers settings) will you be allowed to connect the Internet?
Mukulmadan, ashWebSv.exe is not what this thread is about, but we are interrested in all crashes of course. Currently the windows error reporting page is out of order, so we can not download the crash reports from Microsoft. Could you please go to c:\program files\alwil software\avast4\data\log folder and zip and mail me couple of those UNPxxx and UNPxxx.MDMP files, that are created there on every crash? Thanks. Lukas.