I am having some issues with Avast as of late. This isn't something that occurred after initial installation but simply something that happened recently. At boot up I receive an error telling me that ashwebsv.exe cannot be "written" into the memory. I took a screenshot of the error:
http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/2576/message.pngI googled it but didn't find anything relevant to my situation so I uninstalled Avast, restarted, reinstalled Avast, restarted, allowed a virus scan at boot up, and then... it came back.
Around the same time my security settings told me that my Avast might be "out of date", which was ridiculous since I had just updated it on both occasions (and restarted of course). I turned this setting off since it was simply a nuisance. I am not sure if that was relevant or not..
I also checked to see if it had anything to do with my firewall--and it did not. I ran SpyBOT to see if there was any spyware perhaps causing this problem, but it didn't find anything. I also cleaned up my registry (and looked at my start up registries) for anything that might conflict with it; I didn't find any problems--in fact, it wasn't listed amongst my start up registries (so then I assumed that it only initiates when I start surfing the web, which makes sense). But oddly, it sometimes shows even BEFORE I open up a web browser.
AT Start Up Running:Teatimer (SpyBot)
SpyBot
Comodo Firewall
Windows Anti-Virus Monitoring: Disengaged (seems to not see it as being up-to-date)
OS: Windows XP Pro SP3
TESTED ON: Firefox and IE
If anyone can offer any advice or help that would be great.
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Also, I did try and look at the logs but I wasn't sure which one to look at. There was a file called AshWebSv, a WS file, which did not contain any data. Since the error causes me to terminate the AshWebSv process I though I would try to reengage it. I double-clicked it and checked my processes and it returned. I went on a few web pages as well and an error pop up never showed up, but it did crash later THEN the error pop up appeared.
http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/3575/crasht.png