Hello, this is my first post on these forums so forgive me if I have posted in the wrong section.
Now to my issue, I share a computer with 3 other people in my household and someone restarted the computer to fix an issue with the wireless bridge, and when the computer started up again the internet work, but Avast! complained about being unsecured and to my surprise all of my shields are disabled and it says "Urgent: avast! service stopped" then in smaller text below it it has a large red circle with a gray X in the middle and it says in the text "The avast! antivirus program has been stopped, or is in an inconsistant state. Please re-start the program to resume protecting your system." But when I click the Start Program or the Fix Now button absolutely nothing happens except it asks for administrator permission (I run Windows Vista don't razz me about it) and then when I give it permission it may ask for permission again but then nothing happens.
If anyone has any solutions I would greatly appreciate it, thank you!
EDIT: My Malware Bytes scan just completed and there are no infected files according to it, so either this isn't caused by a virus or there is a super virus disabling my anti-virus.