Avast 5 and 4.8

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Okay, so, after installing Windows 7, i suddently realized that Avast change their website. So i decided to download Avast 5.0 free. Took , it, registered it, aaaand, it has a few moments during the day, when it disables it’s own shields! I do not want to wake up that I accidentally followed a wrong internet link and ended up with a virus, just because avast took a little nap! Is this a bug, or is there something else wrong? I know other people who said this was happening to them also. Once i wasn’t able to start avast back at all. Usually if i right click the disabled avast, i start the interface and then “fix now” to enable the shields. Upon reactivation, before it , it says he couldn’t start them…
So i want to go back to 4.8 until they fix this bug , BUT, where will I be able to find a license key for my free avast since I am not sure a new one for 5.0 might work. That is also a question i would like to find out an opinion :slight_smile:

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So i want to go back to 4.8 until they fix this bug , BUT, where will I be able to find a license key for my free avast since I am not sure a new one for 5.0 might work. That is also a question i would like to find out an opinion

you can get a new license every time you reinstall V5/free, don’t worry about that. As to your bug, it’s been reported by a few here already; I’ve seen this happen while running an early beta build, but not anymore for a while on my system…

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You can get your free license for Avast! 4 here:
http://www.avast.com/registration-free-antivirus.php

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I have installed avast5 on another 3 different computers, and shields do not deactivate. :frowning: I have the latest update of avast, but the bug won’t go away. And i have scanned my computer for viruses, and have none. :frowning: I even have my partitions protected from autorun viruses :))

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and shields do not deactivate.
you mean you can`t turn off shield?

Deactivate = off
Activate = on

Have you tried avast repair and reboot?
For a repair of avast. Windows, Add Remove programs, select ‘avast! Anti-Virus,’ click the Change/Remove button from the pop-up window, scroll down to Repair, click next and follow.

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No no no, i am terribly sorry for the misunderstanding.
I meant that on 3 different computer avast doesn’t suddently deactivate itself…like it does on my laptop :frowning:

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If Shields are being turned off:

  1. Your computer is infected.
  2. Your avast is not correctly installed (or have another antivirus running/blocking avast).
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I have Malware Bytes Anti-Malware free, and i do a scan once a week, so it is not running when the avast shields are blocked.
Got no infection, i have scaned all my partitions with avast and malware bytes…registry and startup are crystal clean… :cry:

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So, option number 2 :slight_smile: