I am familiar with avast and how its processes are generally isolated in them selves. recently I installed avast on a computer that i obtained from a trusted friend o clean up the maliscious junk that she somehow never notices. it installs fine, when finished it says it will run a quick scan, i was going to anyway, no dice. So i try and run the ui to start it myself, a common fix for installers not starting things, no dice. I check to see if the process is running, nope. i try and start it from the real file location, no dice. i check, because windows 7+ is nice enough to let the task manager to tell me what services are running, to see if avast has a service. yes it does. its stopped. i rightclick and start, imedetly i get a, what i found out to be later a 1053, error saying it didnt respond in a timely fashion. i try and reinstall twice, no, try and run the miniapplications, none, except for browser cleanup, dunno why, but thats not much of a help. actually the maliscious/otherwise nasty stuff intrudes and interrupts when i browse the web. the funny thing is is that the only thing that runs from avast is the browser cleanup, again didn’t help because it clears out only apps and extensions, not the actual plugins that cause consistent redirects, and the avast anti tracking and web reputation thing, cool but no help. i try and see if windows will find anything wrong with it and it just comes up with an incompatable software. no help and no tips. but, as i can see that others around here are using avast on windows 7, is quite the intruging lie. i am worried that some form of maliscious shtff already present has hacked and locked down avast from running. this poses quite the security risk if it actually is. i was forced to remove many, many different mal shkit myself. this allowed for me to browse the web fairley ok on chrome. don’t get me started on IE, i think i made it worse somehow. (not that i use it anyway) however a few of my fav sites, not meaning i clicked the fave button, just that i like them, thats an ancient IE thing to do lol, have been redirecting CONSTANTLY o various other sites, ranging from to online games that are way too desperate for players, fake shopping sites and “deals”, to, and this is creepy, The “New York Times”, I checked on this and it was the real site, not the regualr page but it was official. the only way i can get passed this is to type a location different than the main page or the simple www.blahwhatever.com (dont click that, i just wrote an example, if its real thanc its probably a bad site) however with no non-windows security system running am surley at risk as anyone would know, but running a copmputer with a broken one is extremely dangerous. nrton is out of the question and i am worried i’ll have to resort to AVG!!! hopefully you could fix this so that i dont have to do something that crazy.
I couldn’t even tell you what version of avast i’m using! All i know is that the installer version is; 10.0.2206.692
according to the amazing dxdiag my windoes specs are;
System Information
Time of this report: 11/12/2014, 16:36:39
Machine name: BAKURARYOU
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.140706-1506)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Acer
System Model: AO722
BIOS: InsydeH2O Version V1.08
Processor: AMD C-60 APU with Radeon™ HD Graphics (2 CPUs), ~1.0GHz
Memory: 4096MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 3818MB RAM
Page File: 2446MB used, 5189MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
DxDiag Version: 6.01.7601.17514 32bit Unicode
I hope that comes out right
I’d sure like to know why this is happening or, if i am, what i’m doing wrong.
and please, i did search, nothing of interest came up, and even so every problem, if not on a wide scale, is personally affected. so if you think to say to search for this fix, don’t. 
Also if you happen to reply copy what you may or not say into a quick email for me please, and send it here; billington,jesse@gmail.com