DavidR
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OK, I take it then that you have the avast Internet Security version as you just gave 6.0.1028 as version ?
But reading the “Subscription valid till: 5/8/2013” in the first post, it has to be avast pro or AIS paid versions (as the free is a max 1 year registration period).
If you have AIS then that has a firewall (ensure that avast.setup has outbound permission), but the avast Pro doesn’t, so would be using the win7 firewall (that has outbound protection disabled by defaul, so should imped the update)t.
In any case you should download the latest avast version (Pro or AIS) 6.0.1367 and do a clean install of that.
Direct download locations:
Pro AV: - http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/setup_av_pro.exe
AIS: - http://files.avast.com/iavs5x/setup_ais.exe