I used the offline installer for Avast and the service will not start. If I run services.msc and manually start the Avast service it immediately stops. Is this a conflict with Windows Defender? (I plan on disabling that.)
The user account has Administrator rights. When I installed Avast I ran it as an administrator.
It's not a problem with any remnants of other AV software since this is a clean install of Win 7. If there's some prerequisites for Avast's service to run, it would be nice if Avast would pop up a box saying exactly what it requires in order to work - instead of just failing to work.
Windows is still periodically downloading updates and demanding to be restarted (like I said, new install). Hopefully it'll pick up whatever it is Avast needs but is being secretive about.
Whatever the problem is, a quick Google shows it's a very widespread one and it would be nice if it would get fixed right away!