Hi Iroc9555,
Thank you for the welcome and the fast, quick and easy solution to our huge problem.
Guess what: IT WORKED GREAT and we're happy campers now again.
Avast! 7 is up and running ... and even the embroidery software where I had some issues with is in order!
We definitely will remain Avast! customers - with both, our paid version (on our main PC) and the free version (on our other compuers).
Again many, many thanks!
Have a great day, wherever in the world you are,
Sigrid