I am wondering why auto updates no longer functions. Just this last week or so it quit being “auto”. A manual update does work. The "settings " are set for " auto " update.
and you have 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.
Are you getting an error displayed when the auto update fails ?
Also try changing the Update Settings:
From the avastUI, Settings, Updates, scroll down to Proxy Settings (expand if required) and set it to Direct Connection (no proxy), see image, click to expand.
Avast will not update on my computer. I am receiving the following message:
"Error reading product data from "C:\Program Files\AVAST Software\Avast\setup".Setup cannot continue.
Any ideas?
Have you already followed the instuctions for a repair in this thread?
Every one
Then the next step is to download a fresh copy of avast and the removal tool http://www.avast.com/uninstall-utility, uninstall avast then reboot into safemode ( tap f8 while starting the system ) and run the removal tool, when completed reboot back to normal mode and install the saved copy of avast that you downloaded earlyer.