I uninstalled 4.8 rebooted and installed avast 5 - big mistake!!
v5 didn’t install properly, just said finishing setup for 10 minutes and completely froze up XP.
After a forced reboot (power off) avast! froze it up again. took 4 more reboots and power downs to get this off.
Did you manually uninstall? If so did you reboot before installing v5?
Manually uninstall?
Well, add/remove programs, and yes it rebooted after uninstalling.
After installing v5, everything starts fine then after a minute or so all i can do is move the cursor around and power off.
I’ve got to say, this is making a very bad impression. You would expect security software (especially AV) to be the most reliable on a machine.
It also slows (web) page loading to a crawl.
Yes that is what I meant by manual uninstall.
I also had this issue in beta after rebooting once install was complete. Installation hanging on Finishing Setup was a known issue as well and I thought to been resolved. VLK or other avast staff may ask for a memory dump.
I reinstalled/upgraded my os on that system I had issues. Since I had not had that problem on that same system.
It very well could be a problem with avast scanning files at start up such as any startup programs, processes/services, and even device drivers.
This issue was happens to me also.
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53770.0
Is their any anti virus installed your computer now or before installing avast 4.8?
If their is? i would suggest uninstall it then run THE PRODUCT UNINSTALL UTILITY.
Restart.
Try Install Avast 5.
Even when I got it running, there is the web page loading issue. No time to waste trying to track down the problem, I’ll stick with 4.8 in a while until I have time to troubleshoot.
My question is?
Is your system installed only one anti virus ever since you’ve use your computer?
avast 4.8 only?
Did you try different Anti Virus in your Computer in past days or years?
yes, 4.8 only.
+1
Got it working after many, many uninstall/reinstalls.
Each time I either got the ‘finishing setup’ hang and avast worked but froze system on 1st reboot (2nd seemed fine) …
or the install went smoothly but on rebooting avast was disabled and had to be uninstalled.
The unistall process hung as well when removing the various shields.
Also, when it seemed to work, the web shield absolutely cripples browsing - pages load painfully slow (with style sheets not loading etc.)
If I were an average user, I wouldn’t install again (and I’m not, untill a few program updates come out). 4.8 installs perfectly every time.
the first/second Avast! 5 startups with slowdowns are probably caused by building of pesistent cache which will afterward benefit Yout in major speedup of onAccess scans …
See also the thread “[5.0.377] Free AV Install Hangs at End of Install”
Persistant cache… of a web page? Or do you mean the other problem, when XP totally freezes up?