:(I have installed and uninstalled the latest version of Avast 5 and have done so also in safe mood using the Avast Uninstall Utility 4 times now plus chose repair from Change/Remove. That makes no difference except to consume time.
I have never gotten any error messages etc except when I tried to manually add the updates which I have figured out that out myself and at least that works. But with the lg file that grows daily it is a real pain and time consuming to be dl'ding then rebooting each time much time.
Until you can come up with some other idea other than to keep uninstalling and reinstalling which I find an unnecessary waste of time. What good is uninstalling and reinstalling another time going to do?
The program acts like it tries to install but the "over all progress" yellow bar appears and just freezes. The programs seems to be blocked from receiving from Avast site or I doubt it would say it was updating the dl file: server.def.vxp.
What are things that could be blocking or preventing? Thats apparently where the problem lies for me not rebooting and installing and reinstalling endlessly!
I have really so appreciated this program for about 8 yrs with no problems except the last Avast false positve months ago episode that I was able to thankfully recover from with on site directions to repair with all working fine.
I do hope and pray for your patience, enlightenment and a quick solution as to what is going on for all who are having this related problem.
thank you very much, Brit