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Offline catman2112

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Re: latest update causes avast to become unresponsive
« Reply #45 on: September 05, 2018, 04:37:03 AM »
This update renders my machine unusable.  And I can't help but think that all this money spent to build your state of the art new building has pushed you into a tailspin of bloatware and other crapware to try and support your new home.  Frankly - I have a subscription coming up for renewal here at the end of next month and it might just be time to dump avast finally.  It's truly sad that I have this installed on so many computers because you guys were the fastest and least bloatware out there... now you guys are worse than McAfee and Norton combined..

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Re: latest update causes avast to become unresponsive
« Reply #46 on: September 05, 2018, 06:49:42 PM »
We've been informed on the developers channel that a microfix was released by Avast an hour ago.

The microfix is provided by the Avast Emergency Updater which is run automatically from task scheduler every 12 hours and a few minutes after system boot.

You can get this update immediately by rebooting and waiting ~ 5 minutes, otherwise it will arrive automatically in 12 hours (max) or you can execute:

 schtasks.exe /Run /TN "Avast Emergency Update"
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Offline d00zah

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Re: latest update causes avast to become unresponsive
« Reply #47 on: September 05, 2018, 10:02:45 PM »
2+ hours into re-enabling 'Real Site' component & rebooting. So far, so good.
« Last Edit: September 05, 2018, 11:18:45 PM by d00zah »

Offline catman2112

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Re: latest update causes avast to become unresponsive
« Reply #48 on: September 17, 2018, 04:05:04 PM »
Still useless...have completely uninstalled and reinstalled 3 times now each time after seeing on some thread that a "fix" has been enacted, used the remover (Frankly, it's said that they even had to develop a remover in the first place) also uninstalled Malwarebytes...comptuer a) slows to a crawl, b) internet connectivity gets shut down in Firefox, Chrome, but strangely NOT in IE....but what's worse -is my local network gets shut down - and I use mapped drives all the time...  Seriously, my renewal comes up in less than a month - I was once at over 20 computers with Avast - but this is beyond ridiculous. 

Offline d00zah

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Re: latest update causes avast to become unresponsive
« Reply #49 on: September 17, 2018, 04:24:22 PM »
Things have been working great since my last post... all Avast/MBAM prem. features enabled with no ill effects. An mail client update even fixed my issue with Avast email protection for gmail acc'ts. I'm afraid I have no other suggestions.

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Re: latest update causes avast to become unresponsive
« Reply #50 on: September 17, 2018, 04:27:42 PM »
@ catman2112,
It may be worth trying a Clean Install of Avast:
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