Firewall not available?

I’ve just installed Avast, and all seemed to be going well. However, I can’t seem to get the firewall working. When I click on the button to turn it on, all I get is an error message that the firewall is not available.

Furthermore, when I tried to open a ticket on the tech support page, I got “Unable to submit the ticket; you do not have the permissions required to submit tickets on this support desk.”

So how does one get tech support?

Which version of avast! are you using?

5.1.864

5.1.864 free ( no firewall )
5.1.864 pro ( no firewall )
5.1.864 internett security ( have firewall )

I have 5.1.864 Internet Security

Try avast repair and reboot

For a repair of avast. Windows, Add Remove programs, select ‘avast! Anti-Virus,’ click the Change/Remove button from the pop-up window, scroll down to Repair, click next and follow.

did it work ?

What OS? What firewall were you using before? How did you remove it?

Aha, we have victory. Thanks for all the help.

Choosing repair got me another error message, but it directed me to update the program from within it, and when I did that and restarted, I found myself with a firewall.