Network Shield becomes inactive at reboot

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I have to keep activating the network shield everytime I restart the system. I click to persist the changes, but it never persists. Is anyone else having this experience?

Oh…

Running Windows XP SP-2
AMD AthlonXP 1800+
80GB HDD

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Nope :cry:
Everything ok here.
Can you try the ‘old’ solution for Windows 98?
Make the changes to ‘enable’ the Network Shield.
Close the settings.
Shutdown and exit avast.
Boot.
See what you get on next boot ::slight_smile:

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Just tried that… Didn’t work :frowning:

I’ve tried shutting other programs/services down to see if they were conflicting with the network shield, but nothing works. I even shutdown sygate pf. Maybe Network Shield just doesn’t like my system… :smiley: hehe Everything works great except this.

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Negeltu
Did you try making the changes in safe mode? ;D

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That doesn’t work. hmmm

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Negeltu what do you mean by “inactive”?
Is it not_running or waiting_to_start?

Can you send me your file \data\avast4.mdb?

Thanks
Vlk

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or try to look up Network Shield provider errors in avast! Log Viewer if there’s a record why it was unable to start, thanks.

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VLK,

I mean it is not started. It says “No task is currently using this provider.”
and you CAN start it manually by pressing the start button. Once you press the start button it starts up and runs, but when I restart the computer it is shutdown and I have to press the start button again.
Will send the file to you after this post. :slight_smile:
Actually, I don’t have avast4.mdb but I have avast4.xml. I will send that to you if you want.

pk,

The only recent error is:

10/25/2004 6:04:14PM System 1788 AAVM-initialization error: Unhandled exception in AavmProviderStop, STANDARD.

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Yes please send me the xml file. Thanks.

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Ok… Will do… Thanks for the help… it’s greatly appreciated. :slight_smile:

All sent.

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All fixed… Thanks Vlk… You guys are awesome. Taking time to personally help even the users of the free version of avast.

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Well if they fix for you,they automatically fix it for paying customers too (Home and Professional share the same core and capabilities)

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I am currently having the same problem as well :frowning:

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If Alwil do not say anything different (I can’t know what solves NegeItu’s problem) can you try to repair your installation?
Go to Control Panel > Add/Remove programs > avast! antivirus > Remove
Then choose Repair function in the popup window (Repair).

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putty, do you also use XML storage?
Please check if the file data\avast4.xml is not read-only.

Thanks
Vlk

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Hello

I had the same problem.
However, updating to 4.5.495, it was fixed.

Iso-G

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Of course, RejZoR…but that’s not quite how I meant it. :slight_smile:

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Hi, there is that file and the read only is unchecked.

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I have exactly the same problem as Negeltu… and what’s even worse, it’s not just Network shiled that’s affected, but also P2P shield and Instant Messaging… ??? I started those providers prior to rebooting my system… every single time I log back on to Windows, providers are terminated, and only my STANDARD shield, Internet mail and Script Blocking are started and running…

Ah, yes… latest build here: Nov2004 (4.5.495)

Any idea on how to fix this, would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers !

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Interesting… My P2P provider won’t stay active either. It is doing the same thing that the Network Shield was doing. hmmm