For me, not a trouble (free version of PG and Pro version of avast 8)
Datagg, the only file that asks for permitions into firewalls is avast.setup.
Do you have the services of avast set to be run automatically with Windows? Specially aswUpdSv.exe
Datagg-
Sorry for your luck.I hope it doesn’t happen to me too!
I use WinPatrol ( bob’s suggestion) Spyware guard and blaster,Spybot resident+Script defender.
Also I use some on demand scanners,Ad-Aware,Bazooka,HijackThis,Swat-it,CrapCleaner
+xp-Anti-Spy.
I hope you have better luck with this install
-max
Tech, yes all runs when windows is turned on. But, with pg full version is protecting all system with all instances protected globaly, and then inseting avast exe and gi9vinh them allow rights, still wont allow dlownloads for avast…disable global block drivers and services in protection, it then will download again…
So eitehr im missing a exe file to allow, or it is somewhere esle and i cant find it… In anotehr thread, this guy tells me to tell avast.setup to allow in list, yet this exe doesnt exist in the avast folders… So im really lost here to say the least.
And Max, i hope it never happens to you either bro…
Datagg, I think avast.setup is under setup folder of avast (avast4\setup).
It’s created by setup.ovr, for instance, renaming itself from setup.ovr to setup.exe.
In the past, kubecj said me this will bring trouble but is how it works.
I was trying to access the Control Panel applet of avast!
Hmm I see the .ovr…gave it full rights, still nothing…
It went in the list as a exe though, showed the avast ball… yet still same as before, not enough rights…this is very frustrating, i know it has to be somehing we are just missing.
Tech, watchign in the avast folder when trying to access a download, the ovr dose indedd turn to avast.setup…yet it leaves once i click ok to access rights denied…so i cany get it in the allow list. Making the.ovr in list wit hful access changes nothing. Perhaps an avast peep can shine in here to help also.
OS is xp home…
For the hell of it tech, i tried to reinstal avast to see if anythign comes up, it wound up being the same denial for access rights…uncheck the global protection bloclk driver and services, it works again…every exe has been given rights thus far in avast folder, there must be something strange im missing here… anyone
This is such bs… here is the log
01.07.2004 21:42:57 general: Started: 01.07.2004, 21:42:57
01.07.2004 21:42:57 general: Running setup_av_pro-1a2 (418)
01.07.2004 21:42:57 system: Operating system: WindowsXP ver 5.1, build 2600, sp 1.0 [Service Pack 1]
01.07.2004 21:42:57 system: Computer WinName:
01.07.2004 21:42:57 system: Windows Net User:
01.07.2004 21:42:57 general: Cmdline: /downloadpkgs /noreboot /updatevps /silent /progress
01.07.2004 21:42:57 general: DldSrc set to inet
01.07.2004 21:42:57 general: Operation set to INST_OP_UPDATE_GET_PACKAGES
01.07.2004 21:42:57 general: Old version: 1a2 (418)
01.07.2004 21:42:57 general: SGW32P::CheckIfInstalled set m_bAlreadyInstalled to 1
01.07.2004 21:42:57 system: Computer DnsName: ***
01.07.2004 21:42:57 system: Computer Ip Addr: ****
01.07.2004 21:42:57 internet: SYNCER: Type: -1
01.07.2004 21:42:57 internet: SYNCER: Auth: 0
01.07.2004 21:42:57 package: Part prg_av_pro-1a2 is installed
01.07.2004 21:42:57 package: Part vps-42700 is installed
01.07.2004 21:42:57 package: Part news-40 is installed
01.07.2004 21:42:57 package: Part setup_av_pro-1a2 is installed
01.07.2004 21:42:57 general: Old version: 1a2 (418)
01.07.2004 21:42:57 registry: ERROR!:Cannot access registry HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TestService, error code: 0x00000002
01.07.2004 21:42:57 general: Err:Not enough user rights to continue.
disable protection in pg it works…enable,does not working…the above is the error it generates… Vik ,avast peeps, a loyal user needs help here…
If you can’t give access rights to a non-existent (at the moment) file - how about simply copying the avast.ovr file to avast.setup, granting the access and then deleting it again?
I guess I should note that I don’t know anything about PG, so I can’t say how (whether) it detects the validity of the file (if it’s just a name, or even the content - the file will be updated during avast! updates).
Igor, is there a particulary reason for updating this way (a file changing itself to another name)? You need to allow firewall access and, in this case, Process Guard access…
I’m afraid it will be so stupid to detect only the file name that PG must have any kind of CRC check… :
I guess it has a reason, but you’d better ask Kubec about it ;D
As for the check… well, the content of the file is updated during each program update - that’s the fact.
The reason is to prevent you guys from running the updater manually…
Well maybe not really you guys but all the curious users out there… Running the updater with invalid command line can screw up the installation. It was not meant to be run directly.
Datagg posted in another thread that he could grant access and so avast was updated… It’s weird, unless, like you said, the content of the file only changes in program updates, not virus database update.
Do you mean updating without a valid license key?
Do you mean updating without a valid license key?
No. I mean updating by directly running “avast.setup” (or whatever name it would have).
Does the Home version include the file ashUpd.exe?
If so, why executing avast.setup directly?
It does not, and even if it did, I’m sure there would be thousands of adventurers who’d be increasing their adrenaline level by running the updater directly… ;D
In fact I did it twice in the past ;D
Kubec alert me that I’ll do s**t ;D