The first two solutions were unsuccessful.

The third solution was… well it doesn’t seem to have made any change at all. Avast still looks exactly the same. Still can’t turn it on, still shows “unknown” as the current version and release date, still says connection not established.

Also, my original installation of Avast was from a disk (which I no longer have), and someone else did it for me so I don’t know exactly what they did, would this have any effect at all?

Oh, and here’s another thing added to the list of things that probably shouldn’t be happening. It’s somehow telling me it’s both registered and not registered simultaneously.