I just received a red avast warning that it could not update. I followed the advice here (uninstalled, delated all files I could find, reinstalled, REbooted). Now avast jsut sit and says its initializing and will not update. I am running the free version on a HP laptop, AMD 4 core running Win7 Ult. Can anyone help?
Just try a manual update, I suspect that it will report that it is up to date:
If so - Try a repair of avast:
Win7 - Control Panel, Programs & Features, uninstall a program, select 'avast! Anti-Virus,' click the Uninstall/Change and select Repair, click next and follow.
You may need to reboot after the repair.
This has in the past resolved this out of sync issue between reported and actual VPS version.