Avast keeps requesting a restart, says it is still protecting, known issue?

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Hello,

Apologies if this has already been raised.

This message comes up on my two Window 10 laptops and two Windows 7 Laptops.

I can check Avast when I start the laptops and all is fine, sometimes the issue comes up immediately other times it will only come up after I have been using the laptop for an hour and I decide to open Avast icon.

Is this a known issue, I am using the free version.

This has been doing this for the past couple of months now.

Any help on the reason would be helpful.

Kind regards

John

Here is a picture of the screen I get.

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Tried avast repair and reboot ? >> https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/Repair-Antivirus

3

Hello,

Thank you for that tip, I have done that and will see if it fixes the issue.

On the Windows 7 laptops I have just installed Avast on one so it was a brand new installation and it had this issue from day one.

Will report back on the fix on this Windows 10 laptop.

Thank you, appreciate the reply.

Regards

John

4

Hi,

Have tried the repair on both of the Windows 10 and Windows 7 laptops and both still have the issue of Avast saying it needs to restart.

Any other ideas, I could try uninstalling and reinstalling, but I think I already have tried that.

Cheers

John

5

How about hitting the restart computer button again?

6

Hi,

What’s the point of antivirus software if you have to keep restarting the computer to make it work?

Not helpful…

John

7

For some changes to take effect, a restart is quite often required. :slight_smile:

8

Some changes (bugfixes, UI changes) to Avast are now being announced by the screenshot you posted above.

I don’t recall such a run of restarts prior to the current spate of notices, so this is something new, I think, for all of us.

Problem is, information as to the whyfor and reason for the required restart doesn’t seem to be present.

I suggest looking in the About section to note/record the program version and UI version before you reboot. Afterwards, check there again to see if anything changed, and if so, what it was that changed. It’s likely any changes noted there are the reason for the restart.

NOTE: A recent restart notice turned out to be a fix for the BankMode not starting issue. That fix was deployed by Avast program version 19.8.293 (build 19.8.4793.539).

Current build number is now 19.8.4793.541, and that one did require a reboot to take effect.

See attached below:

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Another Thread with ‘similar’ posts. Not sure it’s related to the OP’s issue
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=229710.new;topicseen#new

Post #13
Petr is asking for logs to assist pinpointing the issue

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The same thing has been happening to me for weeks. Every day or two Avast wants a restart.

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Have you provided logs as requested by Petr in the link I provided to another similar Thread?

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Yes, all done.

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Hi,

Thanks for the tips, I will check the logs and see what is being done.

It would help if Avast just said in the notice that the restart is required as an upgrade or update has been done since you logged on rather than just the restart required statement.

Appreciate the help, thank you.

Cheers

John