A reinstall is something I’ve had to do 4x in the last 2 months for other reasons (re: the program not starting no matter what). No fresh installs with this latest release have been done though.

The current issue with the definitions simply not updating has always corrected itself in less than a day when it’s happened before. So I would really like to know what the problem is.

I find it odd that I had absolutely no issues for years with Avast until they started getting all fancy with the user interface. I began having trouble on and off since June of last year immediately following a Flash update.

Thing that bothers me is I shouldn’t have to keep uninstalling and reinstalling the program for it to work properly. I wish I could get better help than “do a reinstall.” I’m sure a reinstall will at least temporarily fix the problem. However, it would be nice to know what is causing the problem and fix that rather than reinstalling so often.