Please don’t be surprised when you see this version knocking on your door. It’s basically just v.418 with a couple of important tiny bits that will let us smoothly update your systems to version 4.5. These bits are totally invisible (from the user’s perspective) but it is still very recommended to update to this version (unless you’re already using the 4.5 beta).
Thanks
Vlk
Cool, When the Avast has a new verison of the net or similar message I thought 4.5 was released I got too excited then I found out it was just a update for 4.1 which is still cool but not as cool when 4.5 is out ;D 
Will this version automatically install or should I download and install it manually? If manually, should I uninstall 4.1.418 before installing or install over top?
Thanks!
David
Avast will handle the update automaticly for you. No need to uninstall or so first. Isn’t life easy with Avast ;D
Two minutes after I posted, avast did it’s thing! Gotta love this AV!
I can’t run on-demand scanner :
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=8074;start=msg65466#msg65466
or use the search function on this board, keyword : usigetskin
minacross,
It is easier to post a solution…
Normally the usigetskin error is caused by the Database reader coding in the ini file.
Open DataBase Connectivity - (ODBC) A standard for accessing different database systems. There are interfaces for Visual Basic, Visual C++, SQL and the ODBC driver pack which contains drivers for various databases.
An application can submit statements to ODBC using the ODBC flavor of SQL. ODBC then translates these to whatever flavor the database understands.
It is basically how the computer “talks” to the programs it uses.
Sometimes, ODBC is not appropriate for certain “readings”, thus a change to XML does the trick.
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a W3C code.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a consortium that produces standards—“recommendations”, as they call them—for the World Wide Web.
XML is a markup language…a kind of text encoding that represents text as well as details about the structure and appearance of the text. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of structured text and information allowing programs to modify and validate documents in these languages without prior knowledge of their form.
It is a more “general” decoding language and thus at times more appropriate for use than ODBC.
Find the Avast.ini file in the Avast folder/Data.
Look down the lines for [Common] heading.
Under this, find Database and change ODBC to XML.
This should take care of the error.
If you do not have the COMMON heading, just look for the Database line.
Good luck.
not working :‘( :’(
this is the 1st time I have such a problem ???
both 4.1.418 and 4.5 are working just fine ???
Mina, there are some troubles with 4.1.501 that Vlk promissed will be corrected soon (probably today). Maybe your trouble is one of them :
The developers are the best in the world:so are the Mods!!
Be well all… 8) 8)
I thought this would fix my problems on my friend’s machine, but I can see no Avast.ini file at all, Even after a search!
I have looked at the various threads here, and even tried running C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\REGSVR32.EXE ACTSKIN4.OCX but this didn’t work either.
This usigetskin error is driving me nuts !
Originally the machine had Nortons 5 installed which I’ve removed; even downloaded one of their executable files to remove all registry entries.
After this I tried uninstalling Avast several times, but each time I’d get the same error. So I uninstalled once again, downloaded a small executable from Avast to remove all trace of it, and started again.
Once agin the same error occured.
What the hell am I doing wrong???
This machine is a new HP computer, with XP Home installed, and SP2 which I installed this arvo.
What gives anybody???
Davo52, avast4.ini file is located here:
C:\Program files\Alwil Software\Avast4\Data\avast4.ini
I suggest you install avast 4.1 once boot and after this, try version 4.5.
Instructions here: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=11;action=display;threadid=8044;start=0
Now I changed the db type from ODBC to XML and vice versa, both fired the same error (above) :‘( :’( :‘( I can’t run on-demand scanner anymore 
even updating to ver.4.5 from ver 4.1.501 did not fix it : : ,
Ver. 4.5 fired the same error ??? ???
what is going on? : : ??? :’( :o
this is what I mean…
It’s very unlikely to be the reason… but could the problem be actually with the skins? I mean, what skin were you using before? Didn’t you delete some?
Mina, I’m sure you tried to repair your installation through Control Panel so… I’ll try to make another guesses:
Did you use C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\REGSVR32.EXE ACTSKIN4.OCX and boot after that?
What version of MDAC drivers did you have installed?
Do you have MS Office? Which version?
the default (I do not know which one as the gui did not start at all).
I did not delete any :
here they are …
Good job Technical ;D ;D
registering ACTSKIN4.OCX fixed it
many thanx pal ;D ;D
so, what is ACTSKIN4.OCX anyway? :