Help, I decided to reinstall avast today and it won’t update, the definitions stay at 120821-0 which was last august, updating won’t work and its stuck at “initializing, please wait”
Given that the virus definitions is very old (you probably have an old avast installation file, where did you get it ?
Since it is so out of date it may be quicker to download the full virus definitions database (VPS) and install it:
Manual update of VPS - avast! Virus Definitions Update - Manual Download VPS Update (virus definitions, vpsupd.exe, approx 64.6MB). - Save the file to your hard disk, locate where you saved it and double click it and that should carry out the virus definitions update.