As the title says I downloaded the new software update yesterday as soon as it informed it of me. And that is when my troubles started. Basically, instead of the usual quick and easy startup I used to have Avast now takes forever to load. My entire system boots up fine, I get to my desktop and everything works. Than the avast icon appears in the corner and the whole thing just freezes. I can still move my mouse around but I can't do anything else until such a time that Avast sees fit to finish what ever it is doing. I timed it this morning and it took a whole 7 minutes. Once that is done, my system once again works fine.
I am using Windows XP Service Pack 3, 32 bit.
So is this normal? Or is my download/update bugged up?