I installed Avast Free 4.8.1335 on a newly-installed system. When updating, manually or automatically, I get the message “Not enough storage is available to process this command”. It gets about 80% through the downloads. The full report is attached. W98SE w/ 500 MB, 40 GB (less than 3 used), DSL.
512 Mb of RAM?
Are there that much programs running?
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).
I tried to repair as you suggested. It didn’t work so I uninstalled the whole thing, redownloaded and reinstalled. That worked. I had read somewhere that sometimes there can be a corrupted package. Maybe that was it. Anyway, it works fine now. Thanks for your input.
Welcome to the forums, asur. 
Glad you got it sorted out and all is working now.
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Hmm, this forum seems to loose posts! But anyway, for a Win98 PC w/ 320mb RAM, PII, 3,6 gb hdd free space:
OK, up and running with Avast. Pretty straight forward steps:
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Download two files (to the desktop): http://files.avast.com/iavs4pro/setupeng.exe and http://files.avast.com/iavs4pro/vpsupd.exe
The first is the setup file for Avast and is updated through 4/19/09. The second is the accumulated updates from 4/19/09 to 5/08/09 (or today). -
Run the setup file: ( http://files.avast.com/iavs4pro/setupeng.exe )
After setup is run successfully, Avast will try to update and likely fail. Then: -
Run the accumulated updates: ( http://files.avast.com/iavs4pro/vpsupd.exe )
I think you probably will get a successful update notice.
Believe the problem some ran into was caused by using the Avast download manager ( avast_home_setup.exe ) but don’t know why it didn’t work for you.
I don’t particularly like the interface for Avast. Scans are initiated manually; not sure when Avast updates, certainly on bootup. On bootup, it’s a real hog for memory when it does its initial scan. Much preferred the control panel for AVG: seemed to have better user control options. Avast seems to need more memory than AVG did when it’s resident and active.
It didn’t lose the post. I think it can be found here: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=45048.0
I don't particularly like the interface for Avast. Scans are initiated manually; not sure when Avast updates, certainly on bootup. On bootup, it's a real hog for memory when it does its initial scan. Much preferred the control panel for AVG: seemed to have better user control options. Avast seems to need more memory than AVG did when it's resident and active.
I don’t necessarily agree with you that Avast needs more memory than AVG, I’ve had both, and I think Avast uses much less.
As for it being a memory hog when you first start up, it does, but you can change that. Let me switch over to my other computer, so I can look for the setting, and I’ll let you know what to do.
Alrighty, right-click the avast icon in the system tray, and click Program settings, Under “Troubleshooting” click the box as shown in the attached picture. That should help a bit.
Also, read this post, it may help. http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=45038.0