So, I have uninstalled and reinstalled Avast now 4 times (just today) after realizing that my little floating "a" in my system tray, was gone. I thought "odd". So, I ran task manager and sure enough, avast was not running. I checked everywhere and realized...it was gone.
I am clueless why this is happening. I ran "avast virus scanner" and nothing came up so, hopefully someone can help.
When I reinstalled Avast for the 4th time, I realized that, whenever I go into the avast folder....there seems to be files getting deleted. For a second, all the files are there then "poof" in the next second, where there SHOULD be files (in thumbnail view) there aren't. I now can't even install McAfee (which is what I switched from). What happened?
I'm using:
win xp sp2
1.5gb ram
Intel Pent 4
2.4GHZ CPU
let me know if you need anything else....also, if this has been answered, please send me the link as I could not even figure out how to title this as I had a few problems (listed below):
1. first the little blue "a" was missing from my system tray
2. i tried to launch the program only when attempted to launch, the "cannot find file, click browse"
3. when i clicked browse, i could not find the ashAvast.exe file to run (which i thought i have seen there just 2 days ago...but now is gone?)
4. i downloaded the setup file again, reinstalled, saw that the file was there. Rebooted. Gone again.
5. could not uninstall so i ran the aswclear.exe file, uninstall was sucessful
6. reinstalled, again, file was there rebooted and poof...gone again
i am fairly computer literate so i thought to look in the common folder...nothing....went into my local folder and looked for trojans/malware files that were hidden, only found a funky "m" folder containing a weird file that i deleted...so...i dunno what is wrong...i really like avast but, now am scared to visit the WWW without a virus scanner...hahahaha!
thanks for reading, you can even e-mail me too....with solutions or suggestions...
