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A few days ago, I got an on-screen notice saying that there’s an update to Avast free anti-virus. I clicked to update, and it stalled in the first initializing stage. It never downloaded or updated anything. This happened many times over a few days. Now I’ve started getting a message that says that the version of Avast I have was unable to update the virus definitions. I’m assuming that leaves me vulnerable to new threats. I thought I would just reinstall the software, but when I click on the .exe, I get a message that says ‘installer cannot copy the installer binary to the avast! directory by calling ‘C:\Program Files\AVAST Software\Avast\setup\instup.exe’ executable (code 0xd8).’
Are these problems related? Where do I go from here?
I’m running Windows 7. I haven’t installed anything new in the last week (or changed my system settings). Thanks for your help!
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That seems to have solved it! Thank you!