Hi all. Please welcome Avast 20.5.
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We hope you enjoy the new version!
AVAST Team
Problem. This latest version, Avast Free Antivirus (20.5.2415 (build 20.5.5410.561)), now prevents me from saving my work in Corel PhotoPaint 2017. It tells me that corelPP.exe is trying to modify my protected folder (Huh? What? - no it isn't - its just saving to my Documents\graphics work folder like always, like I tell it to). When I manually override to allow the save to occur, actually the saved file never appears in my work folder. The latest version of Avast seems to have destroyed it. No issues with saving in IrfanView however, even though it's saving the same photo with the same edit to the same folder. And there were no such problems with the previous version of Avast, 24 hrs ago.
Assuming that this is a bug, and if it can't be fixed, then I'll have to uninstall it if I'm going to keep working on my stuff.
Thanks though -- this is the first problem I've ever had with Avast. So you're doing good.