I have some real bad news.
I reinstalled Avast yesterday.
All went o/k.
Waited for program update.
A while ago got a popup from Avast to say that a new update is available.
I clicked on the popup to download. All went o/k. At the end asked for reboot.
I clicked on Yes and rebooted.
About a minute after reboot was finished, asked for another reboot.
I accepted again.
About a minute after reboot completed I got the reboot message again.
I checked the setup.log file. At that stage it was 262kb in size. Found a line containing 'NeedReboot=true' not far from the end.
I rebooted by accepting the Yes in the Avast popup again.
As it was booting up I launched windows explorer as quick as I could. The setup.log file was still 262Kb. waited for about a minute, and of course the popup arrived and straight away after that the setup.log file went to 294Kb.
This is what I found in the setup.log file. about 50 lines from the end:-
20:29:38 vrb/reg Set registry: Software\Alwil Software\Avast\4.0\Version=4.8
20:29:38 vrb/reg Set registry: Software\Alwil Software\Avast\4.0\VersionShort=4.8
20:29:38 vrb/reg Set registry: Software\Alwil Software\Avast\4.0\SetupVersion=1201
20:29:38 nrm/pkg Transferred: files 0, bytes 0, time 0 ms
20:29:38 nrm/pkg Retries: total 0, files 0, servers 0
20:29:38 vrb/fil NeedReboot=true
20:29:38 vrb/sys Delete on reboot(D:\PROGRA~2\ALWILS~1\Avast4\Setup\reboot.txt)
20:29:38 vrb/fil MoveFileEx(D:\PROGRA~2\ALWILS~1\Avast4\Setup\reboot.txt, NULL)
20:29:38 vrb/fil MoveFileEx(D:\PROGRA~2\ALWILS~1\Avast4\Aav5.tmp, D:\PROGRA~2\ALWILS~1\Avast4\Aavm4h.dll)
20:29:38 vrb/fil MoveFileEx(D:\PROGRA~2\ALWILS~1\Avast4\Aav6.tmp, D:\PROGRA~2\ALWILS~1\Avast4\AavmGuih.dll)
20:29:38 vrb/fil MoveFileEx(D:\PROGRA~2\ALWILS~1\Avast4\Aav7.tmp, D:\PROGRA~2\ALWILS~1\Avast4\AavmRpch.dll)
followed by about another 40 MoveFiles and then:-
20:29:38 vrb/fil MoveFileEx(D:\PROGRA~2\ALWILS~1\Avast4\asw44.tmp, D:\PROGRA~2\ALWILS~1\Avast4\aswCmnOS.dll)
20:29:38 vrb/fil MoveFileEx(D:\PROGRA~2\ALWILS~1\Avast4\asw45.tmp, D:\PROGRA~2\ALWILS~1\Avast4\aswCmnS.dll)
20:29:38 vrb/fil MoveFileEx(D:\PROGRA~2\ALWILS~1\Avast4\asw46.tmp, D:\PROGRA~2\ALWILS~1\Avast4\aswEngin.dll)
20:29:38 vrb/fil MoveFileEx(D:\PROGRA~2\ALWILS~1\Avast4\asw47.tmp, D:\PROGRA~2\ALWILS~1\Avast4\aswScan.dll)
20:29:38 min/gen Return code: 0x20000000 [Something done]
20:29:38 min/gen Stopped: 17.05.2008, 20:29:38
The reboot.txt file also appears just after the restart popup.
These last 50 lines or so are the same as the last 50 lines after the previous boot.
During this installation and update process I was in admin mode - no question about the limited user mode. This update was for version 1201 which is what the About Avast states.
I hope someone can figure this out.
Frank1