If you rerun the service from AVAST UI it crashes again..... , it happens just after the upgrade database virus message.
I was just programming from hours and hours, this is my Dev machine, no viruses, clean XP32 sp3 professional full path.
Software include, VB6 , VS2008, DDK SDK etc.
I am 100% sure there is nothing attacking the avast, I use AVAST since years as my main protection.