I don’t know the reason but when I installed avast everything was working just fine.Now some of the messages are showing “?”
A friend of mine had the same problem.These problems occur only in the warning dialogs.
See the picture.Everything else is OK.Just the warning dialogs.
And as you can see all other buttons are ok.I’m using bulgarian version of windows.
Please help!
And as you can see all other buttons are ok.I’m using bulgarian version of windows.
Please help!
Strange… does a reboot solve this issue?
Does the problem occur only in the warnings comming from the Web Shield (as your images show), or also e.g. from the Standard Shield (i.e. if you pause the Web Shield and save the Eicar.com file to disk)?
The language version of Windows doesn’t really matter (on WinNT/2000/XP) - the important setting is “Language for non-Unicode programs” in Control Panel / Regional and Language Options / Advanced.
Actually I saw the same problem on my neighbour’s PC, but didn’t had time to post a topic about it.
And the interesting thing is that not all dialog warnings windows are with “?” .
I noticed that only if the Resident provider found a virus, only then the warning window is with “?” , when you use on-demand and ashQuick scan everything is all right.
My neighbour’s PC has WinXP with Bulgarian language pack.
See the screenshoots. The first is from on-access scan and the second is from ashQuick scan, the 3-th is from on-demand scan.
Well I suspect it could be the change i made to install and use microsoft antispyware from bulgarian to english-united states
But the standart shield warning isn’t ok too
Can you explain where exactly should I search for this option and what to do?
Well, I believe I wrote the full path 
Go to Settings / Control Panel, open “Regional and Language options”, switch to “Advanced” page and check the setting called “Language for non-Unicode programs”. It should be set to “Bulgarian”.
Here is the window appearing before I download eicar
And then the windows after the file is downloaded
It’s already set to bulgarian. ??? 
OK 
I’ve fixed the problem.
Just what i expected.After I changed the time settings back to bulgarian it’s wokring fine.
The bad news are I can’t use Microsoft antispyware beta,because it only runs on english versions. :-\
And after some more tweaks(removed the bulgarian “г” from th yaer.Now microsoft antispyware beta is running too ;D
This will be very useful for other users.
Time format? Huh… I’ll check it, but it’s strange.
I’ve just tried this suggestions on my neighbour’s PC, but nothing didn’t helped :-\
And now when I think a little this problem only appear on WinXP with Bulgarian language - my neighbour’s PC, Neron’s PC, and one other friend PC - they all have WinXP with BG language pack - isn’t that strange?
I don’t have this problem - I am using WinXP SP2 standart(English language pack).
To view right chars on different windows languages often requid UNI code chars. If chars not supported by OS it will be showen as “?” and system (windows) not able to use “?” unknown char and that causes some system abnormality. Or if program cannot read UNI code chars.
OK, we found an omission in the code that results in the described behavior (“Virus found!” dialog, coming from the resident protection, is displayed incorrectly if a different locale is set). The problem will be fixed in the upcoming update.
What I don’t understand, however, is that nobody noticed it before (there’s nothing special about Bulgarian - i.e. it probably occurs in any language).
Great ;D
Well it doesn’t appear everytime. For example I use the Bulgarian language pack and I don’t have any problems with it. I noticed that problem only on computers with WinXP Bulgarian language pack(this is my own noticed,so maybe I’m not right).
X.M.A.S you have to change it but this won’t fix it.After you change it to bulgarian you must restart.Only then it will take effect
The problem should be fixed here: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=17127.0