I have updated from avast free 5.0.667 to 5.1.864. I did this by clicking "update program" under maintenance.
I have three shields running (file system shield, network shield and webshield)
file system shield and network shield is not scanning anything.
file system shield says "files scanned / infected : 0 / 0"
network shield says "connections scanned / infected : 0 / 0"
webshield works though
the eicar test files are not picked up by the file system shield...
Ive tried rebooting several times,,,
any ideas?
Windows 7 ultimate 64-bit, no other security software running, intel i7 920 system
*UPDATE* : I uninstalled avast, rebooted windows and did a clean installation of avast 5.1.864...now it works normally.
looks like doing upgrade from a previous version is broken somehow?