Sorry, the current plan is to have the new update pushed out by Tuesday.
As a temporary work around for the users of the professional edition - the problem will go away if you disable the GZIP unpacker in the Web Shield's settings. To do this, open the avast Enhanced User Interface, go to the Tasks folder, right click the Resident Protection task, go to the Web Shield section and there, on the Packers page, uncheck the GZIP option.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to do the same in the avast Home Edition user interface.
Thanks much for your patience,
Vlk
Vlk, I think we all would like to know the REAL date when the fix will come, so we can make a decision about it. The update was scheduled yesterday and I don't want to endure this problem much longer, I have to kill and restart avast several times a day. The options I am left with are
1) wait for an unknown amount of time for the fix to come, will it be days, weeks or months ?
2) downgrade to the previous version
3) "upgrade" to the beta version (which might have problems too)
4) switch to another antivirus software...