I have the same problem with avast-Free 8.0.1497 on my W2000-PC!!!
After manual VPS-Updating and after automatic VPS-Updating to 190313-4 all seems good, but after a reboot the red cross appears again!!!
What can I do???
I made several reboots but the red cross is still there and the programm says "Der Avast-Dienst wird nicht ausgeführt"!!!
@jaroslav.nix It didn't work here either.
Apparently I had already done the 190312 update before it was announced here. Avast was still disabled. (I mentioned doing an AVSUPD.exe earlier in this thread.) Saw the announcement about the fix - oh joy!. Downloaded the recent AVSUPD.exe and ran it:
Still not working. Same problem I started this thread with.
Not much else to do so I:
Uninstalled Avast. Ok
Reinstalled Avast 8.0.1497. Ok
After installation it automatically did a Virus and definitions update. Ok - for now.
Program updated from 8.0.1497 to 8.0.1506. Error message at the end of the update:
Don't know what that means! Better reboot and - right back to the problem as I first reported it.
I saved the DMP file from that error if someone wants to look at it.
Try to update via Avast and I get:
Has anyone else who reported this fix worked actually rebooted their computer to see if it's still working?