Hello, I am sorry if this question has already been asked, but I have a problem with avast.
This problem has happened a lot of time to me, and i have thought that its because my windows was old (SP2 from 2004 or something). So I installed a new windows and it worked fine, till yesterday... Im using SP3 win XP.
Problem:
When i turn on my computer, avast icon (the orange spinning ball) has a red
X on it. When i try to update the virus data base or the program it self it tells me that the "Avast service is not running, please start the service".
When i go to the "Current status" panel, and click Fix now, nothing happened. I also tried the "Start program" button, it still doesn't work.
Here is an picture:
As I said, this happened to me a lot of times, even with the Avast 4 home edition, and I had to Fix the program to make it work. But now, withe the Avast 5 home edition, fixing does not work.
Can you suggest me what to do? I don't like using Avira...