Avast / AVG update ruined my machine

system · 2017-03-20T01:57:59.000Z

Soooo - just let these things update themselves, they’ll be fine - NOT.
The recent, emergency update, of Avast rendered itself useless on my machine. I uninstalled and tried AVG (you guys are the same company now right), which also turned out to be an operating system crippler. Tried reloading, fixing, uninstalling, re-installing. And finally I’ve had to reinstall windows.

“The UI failed to load - oooo, this is embarresing” on BOTH bits of software. Slowly programs stop responding until finally I can’t even shut down without resorting to 5 seconds on the power button.

Now I have weeks of work re-configuring everything I need to get working again!

Thanks.

RejZoR · 2017-03-20T06:15:08.000Z

Are you using any other security program?

system · 2017-03-20T15:12:02.000Z

I’m going through the same thing on 4 machines. So far this is a nightmare. I tried installing AVG and it fails 3/4 the way through. Yes, I unstalled and rebooted. Avast I used Avast clear through safe mode.

Here is my topic.

https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=199079.msg1378682#msg1378682

bob3160 · 2017-03-20T20:35:02.000Z

If you’re on windows 7 look at this:
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=199176.0

baabel · 2017-03-20T22:16:19.000Z

My system booted into something called a “Temporary Desktop” after a very recent update.

See: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2.0

Fortunately, rebooting solved the problem but it was a very strange event, at least to me.

system · 2017-03-22T00:22:08.000Z

I have experienced similar issues after I installed the update to my Avast Pro Antivirus on my Windows 10 64 bit laptop. I had black screens, non-responsive screens/apps, most apps including notepad and task manager would not load and I received the following error numerous times “The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000005). Click OK to close application.” After much aggravation and trying different things, I realized there is a definite issue with this latest version 17.2.2288! I had to start Windows in safe mode to uninstall Avast completely. That stopped ALL the issues. I tried downloading a complete latest version of Avast and installing, but the same issues came back. So again, uninstalled and now frustrated - I just want to back to the last working version but cannot find any archived versions on Avast site.

bob3160 · 2017-03-22T00:25:34.000Z

Have you done a Clean Install of Avast:
https://goo.gl/4Ptzkf

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