I have uninstalled 4.7 and installed 4.8 of avast anti-virus home edition and entered my personal home user licence.
I tried to manually update 4.8 but got an error using the latest vpsupd.exe file.
To correct this I had to disable the avast self defense module under miscellaneous in program settings yet if I do an automatic update i do not have to disable the self defense module.
My question is this :- Why must I disable avast self defense when doing a manual update?
Alan, I don’t think Graham’s problem is related to the other thread. He’s talking about vpsupd.exe (the program that can be used to update the VPS on offline computers).
Graham, we’re aware of this issue, and are working on a fix (to vpsupd.exe). The thing is, since vpsupd.exe does not come with the avast installation, the self defense module considers it as untrusted and as such, doesn’t allow it to make any modifications to the avast state.
We’re working on a fix to this. Meanwhile, you’ll have to live with the fact that vpsupd.exe will only work with self-defense disabled.
hi…m a new avast user .n i too got the same avast update error(setiface error) after i installed avast 4.8 yesterday…i dont have a net connection in my laptop…so i need to update manually…i ran the avast update n got the above eror…can u plz suggest me wat i shud do to overcome the error???plz help…
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).