hi,sorry forgot to say that i can still browse the web as normal,and the firewall is the one that came with my windows 7.
i ticked the load avast after other services box,rebooted,and after about 40 minutes a red pop up appeared saying update failed.so i opened the avast update and as before it started to download but stopped when it got to the vps_32-64f-64e.vpx file.connection terminated,retrying
…it tries about 6 or 7 times then says last encountered error:cannot connect to download,similar to the last one.
my firewall didn’t ask to allow avast to connect.i eventually found logging setting under the monitoring part of my firewall interface,but when i clicked on the link next to it a pop up appeared saying it couldn’t find the path.
i’ve also tried updating the program again but i got the same thing as when i try updating the definitions.
i don’t know how to post what it says on the update page.all i can tell you is that both my definitions and program are out of date.