I had already disabled Auto Sandbox and the problem continued.

That being said, once again everything is okay. It’s confusing, I don’t know what caused the game problem and now I don’t know why they’re working again. I’ve done nothing. I thought it was the updates causing the problem, but Avast updated a few times today and the games are still running okay. I hope it continues to stay that way.

I guess I’m luckier than most here who are having problems with avast 6. It only affected a couple of desktop games. My internet is fine and everything else is working and I didn’t have to uninstall or reinstall. Knock on wood, it stays that way.

FYI, I have XP Service Pack 3 and an older version of Zone Alarm Free (8.0.298.000)