Unsecured- -- help

This is driving me crazy.

“Unsecured: avast! service stopped” “The avast! antivirus program has stopped, or is in an inconsistent state. Please restart the program to resume protecting your system”.

I have pressed “start program button”. I get a user control box that pops up and asks if I want to let avast change my system. I say yes. Then nothing happens.

I’ve also clicked the “fix now” at the top of the UI. Same deal. But nothing changes.

I’ve rebooted a bunch now, it never works.

More info: “Real Time shields” are all listed as “unknown”. Clicking “start” on any of them does nothing.

Help.

Try avast repair

For a repair of avast. Windows, Add Remove programs, select ‘avast! Anti-Virus,’ click the Change/Remove button from the pop-up window, scroll down to Repair, click next and follow.