Which is your Windows? 98, Me, XP, Vista?
Do you use any other antivirus in your computer?
Can you try to repair your installation?
Go to Control Panel > Add/Remove programs > avast! antivirus > Remove. Then choose Repair function in the popup window (Repair).
How do you connect to internet, is it ADSL? And do you have other computers with working avast updates using the same connection?
Try to open avast settings - update (connection), press Proxy button, and select Direct connection, press OK to confirm. Then try to start iAVS update manually again.
Well I haven’t read the Wiki article but I’m using the ‘freeware’ not shareware version of MBAM, there is a paid version and that includes resident protection. So it looks like that wiki article is either out of date or incorrect ???
However, checking the article, you have been selective as it is quite clear there is a freeware version and what it includes.
This is a link to get the free version - MalwareBytes Anti-Malware, On-Demand only in free version http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/malwarebytes/mbam-setup.exe, right click on the link and select Save As or Save File (As depending on your browser), save it to a location where you can find it easily later.[/li]
Well, it says shareware. The part that we usually use here is the part that’s free. We just want to do scans every once in a while, not have on-access / realtime protection.
Anyway, my post wasn’t meant to bring on a debate whether it’s free / shareware or whatever, I’m just saying that you don’t have to pay for it to run a scan, that’s all.
The page I’m looking at seems different to the one in the link in your image, though they aren’t very clear at all about there being a totally free version for personal use. Perhaps the poor wording is designed to make people go straight to download the full paid option. Or not wanting to make it too clear you can get it free rather than pay $24.95.
The free trial version button if clicked takes you to download.cnet.com and if you ckick on the link there is would download mbam-setup.exe, the free version. Effectively the same as the link I gave earlier but downloaded from bleepingcomputers.com.
It is a reasonable one off fee (for personal use) and had I not already bought the SAS Pro version I would happily have paid for the full MBAM version, it is a good product.
I like 'em both. Still don’t think you have to pay. I just noticed that Malwarebytes put that (shareware) word on there recently. Before, it used to say free I think.
Don’t know if it’s forcasting things to come or what. I dunno. Again, I was just letting hm2k know that he didn’t have to pay (immediately anyway).
Please, go to folder \windows\minidump and send the newest (recent) .mdmp files for analysis. There is also C:\Windows\Memory.dmp file.
Better if you can compress (zip) them and add some information about the BSOD and the link for this thread.
