I have been using avast! home for quite some time. I really like the program. However, yesterday the auto update did not connect to the server, or there was some problem with the update completing. In any event, I turned my machine off in the evening. When I rebooted today, instead of ashserv.exe, ashwebsv.exe and ashmaisv.exe loading, three instances of ashbug.exe loaded. The harddrive was in constant read/write mode. I finally went to msconfig (win98) and unclicked all avast! links so that it no longer starts up with bootup. After rebooting, I tried to launch ashwebsv.exe but what actually loaded, was ashbug.exe again.
Went to the website and downloaded the virus cleaner. Ran without any problems found.
So, what the heck is ashbug.exe and why has it taken over the avast! program? What do I do about it? Uninstall/reinstall?
Thanks for your help.
Specs: PII laptop, 266Mhz, 256Mb RAM, Windoze98, Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6