Stall of AvastEmUpdate.exe Because of MVPS hosts file Confirmed Fixed

[NoelC]

I just went through a Change operation of Avast to research another post, and it ended up completing an update including a run of AvastEmUpdate.exe.  At first I wondered if it would hang, since it stopped on that step for a few seconds, but then it completed.

I'm happy about that.

-Noel

[JonM]

Same here.  After seeing your note, I tried a clean install on a Windows 7 SP1 virtual machine, using the 9.0.2011.263 Avast Free installer.  The installation seemed to hesitate for a moment on AvastEmUpdate.exe /Installer (or maybe it was /Install), but after a few seconds, the installation completed successfully.  (I don't run MVPS, but I do filtering on my router, running a script that blocks ads based on a list of ad servers at pgl.yoyo.org.)

[HA Nut]

Did anyone from AVAST ever officially verify any of the hosts file issues? If not, that would be very disappointing! Even if they did fix it.

[NoelC]

Someone from Avast did acknowledge that there was a problem, and I believe they said they'd work on it.  I've lost track of the specific thread; it seems to me it may have been one of the pinned ones.

-Noel