"Warning, your system is unsecured"

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi, I’m having a problem with avast working properly. It says that “avast antiviral has been turned off or in an inconsistent state, please restart the program to resume protecting your system.” When I click start program, nothing happens, and when I click “fix now” nothing happens. It still remains the same way. I tried rebooting my system, and it’s still switched off. Then, I tried uninstalling the program in control panel, it gave me a bunch of error notices, saying that I needed “permission” to uninstall. I have Windows 7 32 bit, and running the latest version of avast. I tried going in the settings in avast and tried to reset factory defaults, it gave me another error message, and didn’t let me do it. I’m guessing all I need to do is reinstall the program, but it seems like there is no way all I get is error messages.

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Try a “repair”. Control Panel> Programs and Features/Uninstall> double click “avast”> scroll to repair> reboot.

If that doesn’t work try…

  1. download and save the proper avast version and save to HDD http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=95170.msg758853#msg758853
  2. download and save to HDD avast uninstall utility http://www.avast.com/uninstall-utility
  3. reboot into safe mode (repeatedly pressing F8)
  4. run utility saved in step #2 (do this for each version of avast)
  5. reboot into normal mode
  6. install version saved in step #1
  7. reboot

Also, what OS are you using and any other security software you have or ever had. If uninstalled how was it uninstalled?
Keep us posted on the results. :slight_smile:

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Try changing the permissions to a state where ‘Read & Execute’ is allowed. Its your security. Either your not logged on as an administrator or the system is set to deny access to it on your PC/Laptop :frowning: .

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This problem is just one of the reasons I moved on to W8-DP and now W8-CP. The Window 7 “Action Center” was a pain in the butt with its constant error messages and trying to fix them. I have been using W8 since last September first DP and now CP and have had maybe two “Action Center” items flagged in the eight months and I was able to solve both in under a minute.

Good luck

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Hi! i have a problem with A! when i want to start a program transfers to the Chest! all. EXE think they infected. only exe!programs are taken from official websites

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upload suspicious file(s) to www.virustotal.com and test with 40+ malware scanners
when you have the result, copy the url in the address bar and post it here for us to see

alternative

Jotti http://virusscan.jotti.org/en
Metascan http://www.metascan-online.com/
Virscan http://virscan.org/

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there is another solution? I want to solve the problem of avast!

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The problem is not avast! If every .exe file is being detected as infected… most probably you’re really infected. And worse, file infectors are really hard to clean.

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and you can help me, give me a solution. What can I do?:((

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Try this to make sure you’re not infected: