Install Home Edition quits

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
1

Attempting to install Home edition on Windows XP. Installer quits. Tried multiple times, quits at a different screen every time.

Ran Spybot, Ad-Aware, and norton Utilities. System is clean.

Ran the Avast uninstaller, and even manually removed every reference to Alwil and Avast from registry.

Same situtation every time.

2

Do you install, even in the past, Norton Antivirus?

Please, post the last 100-150 lines of avast log: C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\DATA\log\Setup.log

3

AVG had been installed and removed. Norton Utilites 2003 but not Anti-Virus.

Can not post that log because it was never installed! There is no log.

4

Even if you try no log is generated? No window error message? Nothing in Windows Events?

5

No log. No error message. No interaction whatsoever.

Just quits without warning on one of the installation screens, varies each time.

6

Or you’re not the administrator of the computer (just a common user).
Or your setup file is corrupt.
Or you’re trying to install avast in a folder with non-ASCII characters in the path.
Or another program is blocking avast installation.
Or your computer is infected and the virus is avoiding avast installation.

  • Is your Windows updated?
  • Do you use a firewall? Which one?
  • Do you have any other antivirus installed in your system?
  • Any other security programs that could interfere?
  • Any useful information into Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Events, specially ‘Errors’.