G'Day All,
After an unsatisfactory experience with the 4.8 Beta at beginning of month (IE & OE would not run sandboxed), I reverted to 4.7.
Today I upgraded to the official 4.8,
and sadly have to confirm this problem shown in event Viewer / AntiVirus
"Internal error has occurred in module aswar scan function failed!, function A000010E."
At boot time, in addition to Windows items, I have WinPatrol 12, Sandboxie 3.24 and Online Armor 2.1.0.119 and of course the Avast AshDisp.exe.
The first boot with Avast! 4.8 produced a blank desktop without any icons at all. After a forced shutdown, and a chkdsk on restart, the tray icons for Avast! and Sandboxie showed Error conditions but OA was OK.
Setting "Delay loading of Avast!.... " didn't help
but "Disable Rootkit Scan ......" did let all applications load properly
including using IE7 and OE sandboxed.
In addition to my profile below I would add that I run multiboot XP Pro SP2 systems on 2 HDDs each with multiple FAT32 partitions.
I am happy to keep using this Avast 4.8 and will await developments, since Vlk expects the bugfix to be possible via a regular virus database update.
Otherwise, congrats to the Avast! team.
Maurice