WHEN WILL AVAST FIX THIS?
am interested to know if they are actually acknowledging that so many many people are getting avast 6 NOT WORKING and not uninstalling, and some possible issues , serious ones, occurring due to it.
(Optional) If you want, save your avast! settings for later restoration (Settings > Maintenance > Back up).
Uninstall avast from Control Panel (if possible). If, for any reason, you can’t run it, try booting in Safe Mode and doing it from there. Anyway, boot after that.
Run the avast! Uninstall Utility saved on 1 in Safe Mode. Boot after you’ve run it. Repeat this for any major avast! version you have ever installed/upgraded in your computer.
Install avast! using the setup saved on 2. Boot.
Register your free copy or add the license key for Pro. Or even upgrade your key from old versions.
Check and post the results. If, for any reason, you did not solve, try doing the step 3 in Safe Mode anyway.
I too have big problems, cannot uninstall Avast it will not update, cannot intall over it either, cannot disable self protection either every time I uncheck it and click ok it rechecks itself (win xp pro sp3) the utilty does not work for me because of this. I cannot go into safe mode on this machine. I cant do system restore… any ideas?
Yes, there might be slight differences in the appearance of msconfig but is virtually the same from memory, haven’t used xp in quite a while
I believe the link Gargamel360 posted is specifically for xp but iroc9555’s link give an easy to understand picture
I installed the free version of Avast onto my computer today. It will not open nor will it uninstall. I have tried using the control panel to delete it and that did not work. I also tried the uninstall tool and that did not work either. Can someone PLEASE HELP me fix it!!
The antivirus was norton and no I didnt uninstall it first. After I did though I re-installed the avast and still nothing. I cannot download the uninstall tool that was provided. It gives me an error message