error 183 --system will not scan

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I am running a Windows ME system with a Pentium 3 processor with an 864 mhz processor. I just installed Avast 4.7 on this system today, and have successfully registered.

When I start a scan and click on the media to be used, I notice that the counter stays at 0 while the counter indicates Running (however it doesn’t appear to be running because I have Avast on my mother’s computer and once the scan starts, the files scanned keep adding on the counter), and I get error message 183 indicating. Within 30 seconds I get the following error message:

Unknown error. Scan completed with error 183= cannot create a file when one already exists.

I have no other antivirus software on this system as I uninstalled EZ anti virus before installing Avast. I do have Spyware doctor running on this system.

Does anybody know how I can correct this problem?

Thanks

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I"m not sure what that error message meant, but it appeared that the installation wasn’t effective because the files were not showing scanning, so I uninstalled the program using Avast’s uninstall program and then reinstalled the program.

Now it is scanning and I assume it will work correctly. Shoud I have further errors, I will report back.

I’m still curious what error message 183 means for this software.

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Thanks for the update, glad that everything is working now.

I’m curious too, I’m not sure if it is a windows file system error or an avast specific one.

Window error 183 = Cannot create a file when that file already exists.

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