My version of 4.8 was the Free version. I tried it anyways and Avast sends me a message saying sorry but you had a Free version.
Ok. this is what I tried last night.
-I re-tried everything, went into safe mode again and ran Avastclear
-nothing
-then I re-tried it again but tried something different.
-I ran JV power tools and the under registry it listed Avast in one entry, so I deleted it
-I then ran a search for Avast in registery, it came up with about 55 entries!, so I deleted those. This is all after uninstalling and running Avastclear.
-then I tried installing and running Avast- still the same.
-then I tried going into Internet explorer settings,(I use Firefox, but sometimes a program will look at IE settings instead)
Anyways, I lowered the security on IE, nothing
-next I went into control panel, wireless networks, properties, etc, in order to somehow reset the wireless connection, this has worked before in some cases.
-nothing.
***One thing I notice; when I show the menu for update it shows "Current Version 5.0.0"
If I go to update settings, then change to direct connection or automatic and quicly go back to update menu.....
then for about 1 second it says "Current Version 5.0128" then quickly goes back to 5.0.0"
Why is this? I feel this is an important clue here of what is going on. If there is still traces somehow of Avast previous installation, thats impossible isn't it?