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That was fun. I had assumed that Avast was always running in the background and I didn’t need to “start” anything. I did as you suggested and found I was not set up for automatic updates, and I reset it.
Then I clicked on the little lightening bolt icon to “update” and got the same error message that says the server is down. I did this repeatedly and eventually had received the same message with refererence to 4 servers (207…, 195…, 66…, 216…)
I have also been noodling around and looked into the log files and found that there have been nearly daily attempts to update that are not manually started by me. One, on January 3, is different from the rest, and reports several files were downloaded and vps udated to 31203. This one has the line "selectcurrent: selected source ‘tmp.sfxstorage’ from ‘sfx.’
All the others list other servers in this line, followed by the error message, “http get WINSOCK, WINSOCKTCPConnect() returned 0X0000274D” and a second line that is the same, or similar. Then, “Tried to download servr.def but failed with error 20000004.”
The ‘returned’ part is either 0X0000274D or 0X00002AF9, or both. The error number is always the same.
FYI, I’m running windows XP with service pack 1, via a dial up connection. I don’t have anything other than my Mozilla browser running at these times.
Now I’m concerned I didn’t set the software up correctly in the beginning and may not have been protected for the last couple of months. HELP!