It's got to be interesting.
Wonder how you could reinstall the driver?
Possibly by removing the webshield, mailshield and network shield components through add/remove programs/avast/change and then after rebooting reinstalling them in the same way?
(though I can't really see why that would be any different to reinstalling avast).
Well, it's worth a try, although at this point it must be something with my system that is causing this because I've not found any other posts from users with XP and a similar problem. I've got several friends and family members whom I've recommend to use Avast and I've gotta check them out to see if they have the problem also. All using XP but with less computer knowledge than me (and I'm no expert!
That is why I'm trying so hard to figure this out before dealing with their systems. I can only hope that theirs are ok or I find a solution so I'll know what to do.
Have you always reinstalled using the same avast download? If so I wonder if it is possible that that was a corrupt download in this respect?
No. Started with update from 6 to 7. Then clean full reinstalls of each version of 7 offered from Avast, even the R2 beta. All are doing the same.
Duster