So I went to the settings to see the proxy settings of avast. But nothing happened when i clicked on the proxy buttonÂ
This is the exactly symthom of avast.setup is being running in background (maybe crashed).
avast! settings can't be 'changed' if an updating is being done...
If you click CRTL+ALT+DEL can you finish avast.setup?
I found out that the setup.ovr could not be found and it was indeed not in the setup-directory of avast where it should have been. I copied over the file from my xp installation and everything worked again. I read somewhere that setup.ovr morphs to avast.setup when updating, but even this file was not there.... Just wanted to tell about this special occurance.
It's not good copying the setup.ovr from another installation. It could 'mess' everything in yours.
avast.setup file could be 'hidden' or the process crashed after deleting the file
If you can manual update avast!, the automatic should work...
Isn't your firewall playing tricks with you?