[fixed] avast worked great for years but now deadlocks my PC when updating

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@av4me post:1

I’ve used avast since version 5 without any incidents.

But this year, most noticeably the past couple months, whenever avast is updating itself behind the scenes, Windows will deadlock for maybe 20 seconds. Happens at least once a day, sometimes twice.

Same PC, same Windows XP, same configuration I’ve used since Avast 5.

It started happening after the last forced program upgrade after the start of the year.

I know it is Avast causing the deadlock because right after it finishes and returns control, Outpost firewall will immediately alert me that parts of Avast have changed.

I don’t think reinstalling Avast will help as I am having other conflicts with avast & older versions of XP Pro but before the most recent update issue I’ve been having the same problem. System won’t load on boot until Avast finishes and ad’s pop up. The constant pop ups through out the day of unwanted or needed app’s hangs everything until the pop up pops up. Although Avast security is supporting/protecting use XP users, not all the newer updates are compatible with individual XP configurations. A problem with not just Avast, so I guess we just have to live with the temporary inconveniences if we want to continue using Avast with our beloved older OS. .