Just updated to 7.0.1426 and every seemed fine.
Updated the definitions to 120416-0 and did a reboot.
Hung on startup…just after Avast was loaded.
XP SP3…ZA firewall.
I did have Spybot 2 installed but was mentioned on another thread that this might conflict…
so uninstalled.
Have since gone through the motions of clean install of Avast 7 and update to new defs…
But same thing occurs…Hangs on start-up.
Managed to find an old setup fo Avast 5…which installs and updates to 120416-0 OK
And doesn’t hang on restart…Is it FA firewall?
jadinolf already mentioned Privatefirewall ( free ) is working fine for him, Pondus has mentioned and provided a link for Outpost firewall free which is the older version but i believe it still works fine, if you want the new version of the free Outpost firewall then you would require the Outpost free suite with all feature’s disabled bar the firewall through a custom install and there is also Online Armor free.
Glad your up and runnig again Make sure you exclude the avast processes in outpost applications list ( set to allow all ) and add the outpost program file to the exclusions in avast file shield, i also add outposts exe files to the trusted list in behaviour shield.
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