I'm in another thread about aol problems using avast,,run windows 7 and having the exact same problems as vista users after getting a program update this morning,,apparently many others with aol are having the same problems,,,can someone tell me if you can go back to an earlier version of avast,,and if anyone running vista has tried it,,did it work?,,,many thanks from a computer novice. BTW my version is the most up to date,,5.1.889
I hope you don't mind me posting in the vista problem thread but heres what I posted about my problems,,can someone tell me if by un-installing,,shutting down,,then re-booting and re-installing avast,,but NOT re-booting,,if my anti virus is working OK,,if I do that then I can access my aol normally as you can read in my post,,thanks.
Heres what happened to me this morning,,I was able to access aol thru aol,,after signing off I happened to look for a program update and sure enough there was one,,,btw I have windows 7,,use the latest edition of free avast. I updated the program and then tried to log onto aol again and it said there was a connectivity problem. I then using either IE or firefox was able to sign onto aol normally. Thinking it was AOL I uninstalled and then re-installed AOL but still had the same problem. I turned off the avast and was able to access AOL as I normally do. I unistalled avast and then re-installed it but didn't shut down my computer after the re-install. I was able to log onto AOL like I always do,,but,,I shut down the computer and re-booted and the same thing happened again. I can't log onto AOL I hope someone can tell me if there's going to be a fix for this as I love advast but need the protection of an anti-virus,,I see by these posts that this started several days ago (its Tuesday now). Anyone know anything,,,many thanks all.
Have another question,,if I don't shut down the computer because right now I can log onto AOL normally,,,is my virus protection OK,,like I said I didn't reboot after I re-installed avast,,I'm a computer novice so if someone can at least answer that I'd appreciate it greatly,,once again thanks all.
One more thing is there anyway to go back to an older version of advast to see if everything works OK,,anyone know of a web site that might have that d/l