Today I went to scan my computer with avast 5. As I was scanning avast went “red x” on me and is saying my system is unprotected. It says Urgent: avast! service stopped. The avast! antivirus program has been stopped or is in an inconsistent state. Please re-start the program to resume protecting your system. When I click resume it acts like its ok but if I go to scan again it will go back to being unprotected. I am unable to finish my scan. How can I fix this and get a scan to complete?
I installed today’s windows update for Vista 64 (and rebooted) and my scan is going further than it had been going. This may have fixed the problem. I have a lot of drives and a lot of stuff though so i won’t know if this fixed it for a while.
For any having the same problem:
Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB979306)