I did yes. I’ll tell you what I did in the meantime. I still have this problem.
I performed a system restore to the point of just before I uninstalled the previous AV. It was Mcaffee that came with the computer. I uninstalled mcaffee again, and installed avast without activating my copy. Restarted it, everything still worked fine. Then, I reactivated my premium with my license, performed the update and after I rebooted the computer as requested by the program, I once again encountered the ‘please wait’ screen. a
Any advice?