Just let avast take care of the updates.
Right click the “a” icon, click program settings. Click “update (basic)”
Set the top box to automatic and the bottom one to ask
When you left click the avast icon, the window that pops-up, remember the Details… >> button I mentioned, if you don’t click that you won’t get the ‘detailed’ view in my image.
As oldman says, the default settings should automatically update the virus signatures.
davidr i had avg and i believe i went through add/remove. i just have the windows firewall and i use ie and ff both. i sure do appreciate all the help from everyone. thank-you so much!
Did you eventually find if ashWebSv.exe is actually running ?
It might be advisable to run the AVG Remover, download tool from here, http://www.grisoft.com/ww.download-tools there is a 32bit and 64 bit windows version, ensure you use the correct one, just to make sure all remnants of it have gone.
Whilst the windows XP firewall is usually good at keeping your ports stealthed (hidden) it provides no outbound protection and you should consider a third party firewall.
Any malware that manages to get past your defences will have free reign to connect to the internet to either download more of the same, pass your personal data (sensitive or otherwise, user names, passwords, keylogger retrieved data, etc.) or open a backdoor to your computer, so outbound protection is essential.
- There are many freeware firewalls such as, Comodo, PCTools Firewall Plus, Jetico, etc. - Zone Alarm free works fine with avast and has a reasonably friendly user interface, however, the free version is becoming bloated with trial ware and is also crippled as far as outbound protection goes In the Program Control, configuration area, the slider will only goes as far as Medium protection, if you want more you have to buy the Pro version.
See A Forum discussion on free firewalls http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=30808.0
See http://www.matousec.com/projects/firewall-challenge/results.php.