It is upsetting to renew in advance of expiration and get continual “subscription expired” notices EVERYDAY SEVERAL TIMES A DAY! There is no easy way to contact HELP to stop the barrage. I am quite simple in my needs and computer ingenuity. I am stumped and disappointed. Fully paid . . . again.
Thanks, I’ve given it a try.
Just looked into this Forum after a break. Not a lot has changed, it appears. Still the Fanboys mindlessly advocating Avast, including all the advice to uninstall and reinstall, uninstall in safe made, reboot twice, repair etc. FFS, and the angry people who have actually paid for this sub-standard product. I have been previously recomending that users of Avast 4, which worked great, should migrate to MSE as it is about the BEST free product on the market at present. I am sure that this comment will never be allowed to be posted as it does slag off Avast 5 free, but if it does happen to appear, take my advice guys, seriously. And I DON’T work for MS.
take another break :
I will do that Logos, but I am unsure that if I return in say 2 months, and the situation re unanswered complaints is the same, will you suggest a solution ?
to your particular problem, I’m afraid I won’t. That won’t be solved on a security software forum 
I had a problem with avast! 5 Free not starting, so I switched to MSE till a solution was found.
Avast! 5 Free is much better, faster & lighter than MSE.
Below is the solution that worked for me.
I believe doktornotor is the one that found the solution.
Save avast! 5 download & avast! 5 uninstall tool to desktop.
Run avast! 5 uninstall tool in safe mode, reboot twice.
Boot into safe mode with networking & install avast! 5, reboot.
Worked for me & others.
I believe doktornotor is the one that found the solution
That is the point I was making. Why the f**k would you go to all that hassle to install Avast, when MSE installs with one click ?
It wasn’t a hassle. It well worth the effort to use avast! 5 Free. 8)
See, Avast installs perfectly fine on sane boxes. On boxes that had some 20 different AVs before, 15 firewall and some random junk like Spybot and whatnot, you can expect trouble with any AV product you choose. Simply because uninstallers of most vendors do a p**s-poor job when uninstalling. Even using the cleanup tools isn’t enough sometimes and it’s required to clean-up the remnants manually.
You can also expect trouble when you are trying to install an AV on already infected box - malware tends to dislike AVs and tries to block their installation.
And - on a side note - you really need to chill out before writing anywhere.
Yeah… I should note that it won’t work if you don’t have Visual C++ redistributable installed already - since that part (unlike Avast itself) uses MSI to install, which won’t work in safe mode. So, in normal mode, preinstall that (not really sure which version this uses, but if you install both 2005 and 2008 it won’t harm anything) and then try the Avast install in safe mode.
to doktornotor " And - on a side note - you really need to chill out before writing anywhere. " Not sure what you mean by asking me to chill out. Are you suggesting that my comments are inflamitory ?
On a side note doktornotor, my personal opinion is that Avast 4 was sold to MS, and rehashed as MSE, leaving the current numpties to develop Avast 5 with minimum assistance from MS, hence the ongoing problems with all versions of Avast 5.
On a side note doktornotor, my personal opinion is that Avast 4 was sold to MS, and rehashed as MSE, leaving the current numpties to develop Avast 5 with minimum assistance from MS, hence the ongoing problems with all versions of Avast 5.
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yeah, when I was saying this can’t be solved on a security software forum 
Well… This thread should just be locked. :
Did I just hear a towel land on the ground ? Why would you want this thread to be locked dn, are you worried that I might be right, or that some replies might agree with my comments ?
I completely agree, but I’ve noticed they only lock threads with religious or political content here, never those with flaming material about Avast ;D
No. Purely to reduce the polution of cyberspace with nonsesical blurb like you’ve presented above (EPA loves me :P).
We should ignore enddays as he is acting like a Comodo fanboy. :-X
and this sounds like an Avast fanboy post >>> Comodo isn’t the ultimate bashing source, it’s mostly individuals doing that, whether they’re emulating a group’s orientations or not, I don’t care, I hold each one responsible for the crap he pukes…until proven insane (and not responsible for his acts) by authorized circles ;D