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Offline Weiku

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Avast just stopped working out of nowhere
« on: January 19, 2018, 01:28:54 AM »
Hello forum,

I was just watching Youtube videos for quite a while, when all of a sudden at ca. 1 AM (Austrian time), so about 30 minutes ago, the Avast symbol in the taskbar appeared a second time, so I had 2 Avast symbols next to each other, which never happened before so I found it quite weird. When I hovered my mouse cursor above the second symbol that had just appeared, it instantly disappeared again and at first I didn't think much of it. But a few seconds later I got kinda worried so I wanted to check if everything is ok, so I clicked the first, original Avast symbol that is always there, and then that one also disappeared (except this time after a click instead of hovering over it). Then I checked the task manager and saw that only the Avast Behavior Shield and the Avast Service were running, the standard "Avast Antivirus" (AvastUI.exe) however was no longer running. I tried restarting it, but from then on it kept disappearing as soon as I hovered above the symbol.

Since I couldn't do anything else about it, I just restarted my computer, and for the moment it's running normally again, but as you can imagine I'm still pretty worried about what just happened. I don't think I ever had Avast just stop working like that. Do you guys have any clue what that could have been?
« Last Edit: January 19, 2018, 02:03:27 AM by Weiku »

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Re: Avast just stopped working out of nowhere
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2018, 09:57:05 AM »
Probably just a glitch.
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Re: Avast just stopped working out of nowhere
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2018, 05:28:57 PM »
Do you think that's likely? Just like that, out of the blue? It's not like I was doing anything on the computer that I didn't do usually or something.

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Re: Avast just stopped working out of nowhere
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2018, 04:17:09 AM »
Repair Avast:
1. Control Panel -> Add/Remove programs -> Avast
2. Click on 'Repair'.
3. Follow instructions.
4. Reboot.
W8.1 [x64] - Avast Free AV 23.3.8047.BC [UI.757] - Firefox ESR 102.9 [NS/uBO/PB] - Thunderbird 102.9.1
Avast-Tools: Secure Browser 109.0 - Cleanup 23.1 - SecureLine 5.18 - DriverUpdater 23.1 - CCleaner 6.01
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