For information on how your program can cause an assertion
failure, see the Visual C++ documentation on asserts
(Press Retry to debug the application - JIT must be enabled)
Abort Retry Ignore
This is all I get when I try to boot into safe or limited mode in XP Pro. Avast will not load at all. It works fine in the Administrator mode though. A very serious bug.
Ignore does nothing but keep popping back up over and over and Retry is a bust also. Abort is as good as Star Trek moves. Gets the annoying message gone, while solving nothing.
Yes I did as you suggested. Went in Safe Mode and used the tool to erase Avast 7. It would not let me do both 7 and 8, only one. When I rebooted into reg. windows and looked for it in the folder for that certain tool it was gone. I guess it erased itself too. Anyway I reinstalled Avast 8 and it seemed good at first. Uninstalled AVG and said oh boy! Booted into Limited or Safe mode and the firewall came up first and some other things which was a bad sign. Avast was always the first to load. Then that same sad notice again. Failer. Same one. Sorry to say but it’s back now to AVG.
I guess it erased itself too. Anyway I reinstalled Avast 8 and it seemed good at first. Uninstalled AVG and said oh boy!
Judging by your reply, you don't seem to be using the right order to properly install avast!.
Maybe this will help:
[url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TCCX0R7AAF2WOxAMQ_kcun2nNnCPFAk2P4RBzFXSgds/edit][b]Instructions to Successfully Install avast!8[/b][/url]
I followed closely your instructions, Bob3160. I too have used Avast for at least 4 years. Never had a problem from Avast like this. I even intalled it in Limited mode itself and it installed fine. Reboot into limited and no go. Get that same error. In Admin it works fine. Back to AVG again. This is it. There is something missing from Avast 7 to Avast 8. Maybe is just isn’t for XP anymore. Planning on giving this old beast a big upgrade sometime this year before XP Pro dies on April 8, 2014. Thank you all for your help and God Bless you all.
Hello!! I had the same problem after a virus visited my computer and a gave admin permission. I cleaned my PC with another bootable antivirus. After trying to uninstall avast with aswcleaner.exe i realized that it wasn’t working. I still could find the “C:\Program files\AVAST Software” folder and I couldn’t get inside it.
I finally erased the AVAST folder booting my PC with a bootable OS and a deleted the folder manually.
Then I booted my PC on Windows XP and installed AVAST 8… Everything fine!!