We've been using Avast Server edition on Server 2003 for a long time now. It's been working without a hitch. But since the last update, I find that periodically, the Avast service just stops working. I get this red mark over the "A" icon. I've been able to restart it by going to services.msc, and click on "Start Service" to restart the Avast service.
This has happened a few times now since we updated to the new version (about a week ago). It never, ever happened before.
Here's what the event log says about it:
The avast! Antivirus service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 3 time(s).
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.As a potential fix, I have done the following: (1) Disable Avast self-protection mode. (2) Set the service to restart automatically when it fails. (3) Re-enabled Avast self-protection mode.
I've read some other threads, and I see other people are having other problems with the new version. I thought this additional information might help to track down what is happening. And it's not normal behavior, so it should be fixed.
Toodles.
Leopold
