Hi Tech, I always use Google first before I go the forum of a specific prog. Should I find an answer that matches my problem 101% I then apply it. Avast is too much an important prog on my comper to do trial-and-error solutions. But in this case I just had to. Found a whole bunch of ‘repair’ progs and just selected one, mcrepair.exe.
After making a backup of the original/latest OLEAUT32.DLL I ran the prog and selected only this dll file to be replaced. Previous version (Avast) 3.50.5016.0 and now replaced with version 2.40.4515. Now it is fine.
But I really hate to do such modifications, I’ve now undone an update made by Avast? They know what they are doing and I just follow. Have I now lowered my security risk, left a hole?
I can see which version of OLEAUT32.DLL I’m using but my question is which I should have? There are hundreds of different versions available for downloading.
dll-files.com offers v 2.40.4518, dlldump.com offers v 5.1.2600.2180, another site v 2.40.4514 and so it goes. MS says extract it from yr original CD.
May I use any version of this dll as long as I’m happy or should I stick to the version Avast installed?