Can I add my own experience as a second on this. I do tech support and work with a lot of macs. I have had this issue on probably about 25% of the installs that i have tried with avast in recent months. I can’t seem to get the install to work. Each one has the same repeated message in the console “Error connecting to master socket: connect(): No such file or directory” Its repeated over and over, just retry after retry. Generally if avast has troubles we end up installing Sophos or another free antivirus, but as an Avast user for many years I would love to actually be able to understand and fix this issue.

I have tried re-installing MANY times. Are there any other steps I can follow? I’ve done my homework here, but can’t seem to find a reliable fix to what I am seeing as a common issue. I am using the newest release of version 7, downloaded fresh today. I re-downloaded the install 2-3 times to make sure it wasn’t a file download issue.

Any suggestions are welcome!