Problem with UPDATE 071103-0

[58DaDude]

The Update that was released today under the file number

071103-0

Seems to be causing conflicts with any/all programs being able to open
on Vista Home Premium 32 bit system

If all the Shields are turned off the programs will open normally

Any suggestions

[igor]

What kind of conflict? What exactly happens?

[58DaDude]

What kind of conflict? What exactly happens?

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Simply put No programs will open at all unless all the shields are disabled

[58DaDude]

BTW The conflict seems to be occuring with the
Standard Shields Active

[igor]

I really doubt a VPS update could cause similar problems.
Did you receive a program update as well? (you'd be asked to restart your computer)
Did you install anything else shortly before?

[58DaDude]

I really doubt a VPS update could cause similar problems.
Did you receive a program update as well? (you'd be asked to restart your computer)
Did you install anything else shortly before?

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Don't think there was a program update  as far I'm aware of
My current build number is (Sept 2007) 4.7.1074


This problem occurred immediately after Avast was updated today on  11/03/07

As a matter of fact this system needed to be restarted 3 times after the update was installed

No other downloads or other updates were done besides the Avast update

As stated earlier the problem is coming from the Standard Shields
Once the Standard Shields are disabled all is well 

 

[igor]

So, if you start a program (with Standard Shield enabled), it won't start... do you have to reset the computer, or you can just click avast! tray icon, pause Standard Shield and it starts working?

[58DaDude]

So, if you start a program (with Standard Shield enabled), it won't start... do you have to reset the computer, or you can just click avast! tray icon, pause Standard Shield and it starts working?

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The problem is not just with the Avast program
The problem is with ALL Programs and Standard Shield being Active

Once Standard Shield has been terminated any and all programs will work normally

[58DaDude]

The update
071103-0
Which was released today on 11 / 03 /07

under Build (Sept 2007) 4.7.1074

is most definetly blocking the Vista User Acount Control

Seems to me the updater has reverted backwards
 or is Build (Sept 2007) 4.7.1074
the most current one

[essexboy]

I would tend to disagree I have Vista with VPS  071103-0 and am not experiencing any problems at all

[58DaDude]

I would tend to disagree I have Vista with VPS  071103-0 and am not experiencing any problems at all

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 Well all I know is everthing was fine until todays update

[Vlk]

Have you tried rebooting the machine already?

Thanks
Vlk

[58DaDude]

Have you tried rebooting the machine already?

Thanks
Vlk

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I guess you missed post #7 Vik
Where I stated
I had to restart the system 3 times after update 071103-0  was installed

 
I Guess my only choice is to uninstall / reinstall avast and hope for the best
or
Move onto something else
At the moment moving on to something else might be a better choice

[Rick F]

I suspect that maybe besides updating the VPS, you might have gotten a program update as well. Version 1074 is fairly recent and not really September (I remember reading that somewhere here in the forum).  I'm still on 4.7.1043 myself and haven't got polled to update as yet. Since you were told to reboot after you updated, I think maybe the program was updated too.

If you want to uninstall and drop back to the prior version, you can find it here.  It's listed as the latest version btw.

Avast! Home Edition 4.7.1043
http://filehippo.com/download_avast_antivirus

[DavidR]

I would say it is a better option to do a clean install of the latest version of avast rather than to install the older version. If you install the 1043 version if all is well you won't know why the problem occurred, by doing a clean install of 1074 and all goes well it is likely to have been a problem with the program update rather than anything to do with the VPS update.

Download the latest version of avast http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html and save it to your HDD, somewhere you can find it again. Use that when you reinstall.

Download the avast! Uninstall Utility, find it here and save it to your HDD.

Now uninstall, reboot, run the uninstall utility, reboot install the latest version, reboot.