I always respond to the popup Avast does telling me software needs to be updated. So last week, I did for Adobe Air & Flash Player Plug In (and one other I can’t recall). Both Adobe Air & Flash Player failed after I clicked the Update button while the 3rd update was successful. It said to try again on the failures so I did several more times that evening without success. I just decided to run the Software Scan tonight while taking a break from the to-do list to see how if it was fixed. Same 2 updates show up and both fail again.
I have no idea how to update these program on my own. I tried going to Adobe and found help pages talking about me going into dll and other (I’m assuming registry) files. I’m simply not comfortable doing that. So I began searching for more help with Avast.
The Avast help files say to do a Settings → Tools → Software Updater → Customize > Database Reset (the software updater database) but when I tried that I got a scary message telling me it would make changes that were final, was I sure I want to do it? Well, I backed out of that because now I’m worried about doing that since I’m not sure exactly what resetting the database will do. Must be serious or there wouldn’t be such a dire warning message.
Can anyone help me? I am using the Free version and of course, given the holidays, it’s likely I won’t be on here much until the 26th or 27th. Can’t believe all the stuff that crops up during this busy time… amazing Murphy’s law.
Thanks for reading.