I updated to the newest version of Avast last night (7.0.1407). Since then I've had several issues.
Several were present after just updating, but removing then proceeding to do a clean install seemed to work. I was incorrect. I will do my best to describe them.
When trying to register I get the 'Not found CASTGC cookie'. I've seen that around this morning in the forum, so I won't go into that. Having to register is itself annoying, but I guess that can't be helped. I got this issue after the issue below.
The big issue I have is that after completing the clean install my browsers stopped working. Firefox, MSIE, and Chrome. Since Avast is the only thing that had changed it wasn't difficult to figure out that was the problem. For a firewall program I run ZoneAlarm. I don't know if there is a conflict between the two. So, I disabled all shields and my browsers started working again. After doing that I tried to turn them back on and two will not restart. Mail Shield and Web Shield are the two. Clicking "Turn On" does nothing. Clicking "Fix Now" leads to a pop-up stating "The following services could not be started: Mail Shield". With Web and Mail shields both "off" my browsers are working fine.
Any suggestions to correct these issues would be appreciated. For now I'm going to revert to the older version that actually works. Forgive me for being miffed, but the new version has offered up more issues for my system than improvements.
Thank you.