I updated to version 6 finally and I must add I am very dissapointed.
I just spend 2 hours on things that were false positives:
After updating Avast would block codes from ym email when I opened them, things there were not virusses but from msn messenger which communicates with hotmail.
After that I tried looking things up online on this forum and it would block things.
I later found out it was all java coding that was blocked.
So I decided to do a scan and was horrified that after 10 minutes it had removed 3000 files all from the help folder of my CS3 Flash.
The help files in question are to assist you with coding actionscript as part of the help file.
Then I became suspicious and ran another scanner: Malwarebytes and Avast would block things that the program was scanning, amongst them:
helpfiles int he .js format of all my video games such as Sims Medieval, Dragon age 2, Dragon age 1 and others from my other Adobe products like from Dreamweaver. All of the same .js format.
The program Malwarebytes came out clean however and so I decided to scan with Combofix because if there was anything going on that was nasty then Combofix could find it. It came out clean and the program reboots to make a log, suddenly Avast pops in again and says it might be a suspicious program and if I wanted to run it yes/no/sand box it which was insane.
I was tempted to turn back to version 5 at that point and decided to try and see if maybe it needed an update or anything because the whole problem started when my father called me and told me his avast wouldnt update to 6 (so I tried to do it myself to see if it happened to me as well). There were no updates it said but ever since then everything ran smooth and stable again, no longer do javascript commands get blocked in my email etc.
Then I read here that there was a version that saw all javascript files as false positives and I was enraged by it. Thank god I didn't move all 3000 files and only had to restore half of them.
What angers me the most is that right after updating from 5->6 Avast says it cannot update more and then goes on a shooting rampage against all that is java etc.
I was worried I had to reinstall Windows or something as result of an infection. Instead I wasted 2 hours on scanning when nothing was wrong.
For anyone who wants to restore:
1. beware you do not restore anything real virus.
2. The chest uses basic commands that Windows uses like: hold ctrl+click allows you to select multiples and if you click the top and shift click the bottom of the list you then select the whole pack in between as well. If you have selected the whole list with shift+click you can use ctrl+click to pick out ones that do not have to be selected.
Come on people you know this, it works with selecting files/maps/anything in Windows
On apple shift=command