Not a happy camper ...

OK … have a PC running win XP home 32 bit … no internet connection
Using a different computer …
Have downloaded avast free … registered, waited 6 hours finally got key … entered key on XP machine … says not a valid key
downloaded avast cleaner … uninstalled, reinstalled … tried key again … same response
uninstalled, reinstalled again
Registered a new account, new email, got new key, (only took 15 minutes this time) … new key also “not a valid key”

Support ticket lodged almost 12 hours ago … no response …

Come to forum … try to login with avast account … account doesn’t exist … try second account … no go again … so …
I’m now on my 3rd avast account in under 12 hours, still cannot get this AV to work, got accounts out the wazoo …
I know its the free version … some people cannot afford $70 …
any help out there ?

found a solution … we hope …
installed older version, that accepted our key … Now what …

will this accept the newest version over the top ? we know we can’t uninstall the older version …

After a fair bit of searching this is apparently a known bug… why then leave the buggy version up for downloading ?

Installed latest version over the old one … everything seems OK … we’ll see …

Not a great experience for the first time using Avast

… recommendation … withheld for the moment