One says yes; the other no

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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The spinning ball says my system is unsecured.
When I call up Avast!, it says my system is secured.
Obviously, I don’t want an unsecured system but which one is true?
Mist

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Try a repair of avast and a reboot.

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Mist, what Operating System are you using?

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Anyway, I have the same problem and what was explained to me is that it is a Windows XP problem. If you are not running XP- ignore this.

If you are using XP to get the orange globe to tell you that your system is secured try installing this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283084

Problem is it only works until you reboot then you would have to install it again.

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Hi,

If you are using Windows XP in your computer, the steps provided by jadinolf might fix the issue. If incase it didn’t fix, download and run Dial-A-Fix. This tool will re-register all the .dll files related with Internet Explore, Windows Updates and other Windows Applets. You can download the tool from http://majorgeeks.com/downloadget.php?id=4899&file=15&evp=7d21ae5c611baf9a52b1750805534dda.

Make sure that you repair Avast! after running Dial-A-Fix.
Hope your issue will be fixed by this.

Have a wonderful day… Good Karma!

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iyogisolutions1 there are critical unpatched issues with that program, please read the pink highlighted text at the authors homepage http://wiki.lunarsoft.net/wiki/Dial-a-fix .
The OP also needs to tell us what version of windows there using before people start making assumptions’

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It worked for me! Many thanks.

Now I have my volume control, “safely remove hardware” and “system is secured” in my notification area.

AND they are still there after reboot.

Most appreciated.

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Hi jadinolf

We are so happy to hear that the issue got fixed. Hope you are happy with us too.

Have a wonderful day… Good Karma!

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Glad to hear it worked for you, but what about the OP. We still need more info from Mist, like OS, what version of avast and what other security software they have or ever had. As I stated before “never assume anything”…period. By making assumptions you could quite easily give the wrong advice and screw up there computers even more. :slight_smile:

@ craigb I am trying very hard to have patience with iyogisolutions1. Maybe some day he will stop making assumptions and learn what questions to ask and the reason behind asking them.

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Para-Noid, I have not seen anyone making assumptions.

Check the posts. Perhaps I missed something.

Besides it looks like the OP is AWOL. ;D

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Well one assumption was that the OP is on xp so we really need for him to come back with a reply but as he has not done so im hoping that my first reply to repair and reboot solved his issue.