Ok, I had stopped the on-access providers earlier in the day for some trouble shooting I was doing. Now when I try to start them back up they wont start. I have tried right clicking on the icon down by my clock and selecting “start on-access protection” but nothing happens. I have also tried restarting the system and i still have the little red symbol over my icon and it says 7 providers, 0 running. Any help would be appreciated!
Any help would be appreciated and soon if possible. I need to have a antivirus program up and running pretty quick… If I cant get any help I guess I will have to find a new AV program.
Thanks,
Mike.
Well, I did a uninstall and reinstall… Im still wondering what may have caused this or a possible fix for it instead of a uninstall/reinstall…
You could hace done just a repair.
Any help would be appreciated and soon if possible. I need to have a antivirus program up and running pretty quick... If I cant get any help I guess I will have to find a new AV program.A little patience never hurts. You are not the only person in the world that needs/wants help.
Fast way to reload avast is logout and then login again.
Update avast! and schedule boot-time scan if you thinking that you computer is infected. And reboot it.
Or just to reboot computers.
And BTW it not takes long time just to reinstall avast or do repair. If you have windows xp. So After install of avast is enough “logout and then login” again to get it work but still recommended to reboot for safety.
!!! If you will uninstall it, not forget to reboot computer b4 new installation!!!
What kind of troubleshooting were you doing? File system related by any chance?
I had problems getting Avast provides up and running. Then I noticed my NTFS file system has somehow gotten messed up and folder avast4 in my temp folder was corrupted. I was unable to remove that folder and Chkdsk could do nothing. I could rename the folder, though, and after that Avast providers started to work again. So apparently that folder in temp is important for functionality of Avast.
Well, avast! needs the temp folder e.g. for archive processing (and some other stuff). Normally, it should create the folder (if it doesn’t exist), but if the filesystem is corrupted somehow…
Erm, MrBabis, what exactly are you trying to achieve with your signature? It really doesn’t look nice…
I searched the forum and did try the “repair and it did nothing”. Yes I know im not the only person in the world that needs/wants help… I thought I asked politely, quote “Any help would be appreciated and soon if possible.”
I didnt think I was in being a jerk the way I said it, was I? Just letting you know I wanted/needed my antivirus protection up as soon as possible. Thanks for your time.
Mike.
Mike, after repairing and uninstalling/installing, is your avast! working?
Any other antivirus in your system? Or other security program that could conflict of block avast to start?
Its running fine now after Uninstalling and rebooting and Installing it again. Nothing changed from the time I stopped the providers and started them back up, Im just wondering why they wouldnt start back up for me…
You mean, right now, if you disable you can’t enable them again?
Thats what happened last time I did it, dont really want to try it again. I dont want to have to uninstall and reinstall it again…
This way we’ll never know what is going on in your system… But, it’s up to you, of course, troubleshooting requires time and patience 8)
And your antiSPYWARE scan(s), perhaps including Ewido,
show nothing ?
I have no idea what your talking about.
I dont understand what you want me to do… I uninstalled and reinstalled it once to fix it. Are you saying you want me to stop the providers again and see if they will start back up this time??
Your other security related anti-spyware tools, such as:
If you haven’t already got this software (freeware), download, install, update and run it.
- Ad-Aware
- Spybot Search and Destroy
- Spywareblaster Don’t install this until you are clean.
- Download HijackThis.zip - HiJackThis Tutorial
- Ewido Security Suite
My system is clean and was clean. I have adaware, run avast and double check for virus’ at least one a week with trend micros online scanner. Im also behind a hardware firewall.
I will download and install some of the other ones if you think i need like 3 or 4 diff adware/spyware programs…
I have all of the ones I mentioned above, HiJackThis is an analysis tool that you can see exactly what is running on your system, so I only use it if I have any suspicion of a background process, etc. on my system.
No one anti-spyware/adware program is likely to have every different signature/detection so it is a combination of different detection signatures. Ewido is more geared up to trojan hunting, but has a number of different functions in the suite.