Hi,
I wanted to report a strange behavior from avast today…
The computer started normally and everything is fine but avast! popped that he can’t update…and really I received the following errors:
The shields disappeared: (and I wasn’t able to turn them off via right click on the tray icon)
http://i.imgur.com/vafnR06.png
The update process failed with the following error: (the package is damaged)
http://i.imgur.com/knfUYll.png
I tried to repair avast via control panel and got the following error:
http://i.imgur.com/gtat7j5.png
and here is the error log:
My computer is malware free (I am malware removal trained expert at BleepingComputer) but I decided to double-check the computer (just to be sure)…
The hitmanpro log was a funny one: (it says - This file is invisible. It is probably protected by cloaking technology (rootkit). Yeah, probably false positives for HMP since I have Early Warning Scoring enabled…
http://i.imgur.com/N6kosrH.png
The version is 8.0.1497. I had no problems so far with the previous ones…
Regards,
Georgi