What is this mysterious file - avastIP.dll?
At some point I accidentally discovered that I do not have Avast running on my system (there is no Avast icon on the Taskbar, the AvastUI.exe process is not running) and it does not start. I download the installation package from the network and try to reinstall Avast, but I get a message that there is no avastIP.dll file in the system and therefore the installation is impossible. Retrying ends the same.
Through Control Panel> Add / Remove Program> Avast I go to Repair. The work of Avast is restored!
I found a page describing how to restore Avast -
https://forum.avast.com/?topic=147423.0 , however, did not find any reports of what could have caused this violation of Avast - whether this action was some kind of a malicious program or not.
Another strange thing is that the avastIP.dll file is not in the system after Avast was recovery. This file is also not found on the other two computers, where Avast is also installed and where there were no failures. And at the same time on the site
https://ru.dll-files.com/avastip.dll.html are offered for downloading two versions of the avastIP.dll file. What is this mysterious file?