Among the files affected were high-profile programs produced by Adobe, Realtek sound card drivers, various media players etc. At around 12:15am GMT we released VPS update 091203-0 which started flagging hundreds of innocent files as a 'Win32:Delf-MZG' Trojan (or, in less common cases, as 'Win32:Zbot-MKK').

Last night, avast had a bad false positive issue. thanks in advance.The avast forums are quite busy today and folks may encounter problems when attempting to go there.Īs such, below is the statement they provided: Hopefully someone understands and can explain what this all means. Application-Destination-Port-Protocol-Permission-Path-Parent Path-Desc. On my Comodo Application Rules screen I have 3 listings for Avast. I did a search on VPS File was destroyed, Error 42040 but found nothing. I declined that offer and as Avast seems to be working ok (7 provider(s) total, 6 running) I came here for some help or advice on whether all these restarts are normal behaviour. I then restarted again and although everything started ok this time I then got a news update from Avast and on exiting this I then got another message saying that Avast had to restart my system again. On restart my PC booted up to the safe mode screen without being prompted by me. This seemed to have worked until after updating and getting the message that Avast needed to restart my PC. I did not want to access the internet for advice without an anti virus so decided to uninstall Avast, restart PC and do a fresh install. The scan completed with Error: 42040=VPS File was destroyed'.

I restarted again but although all programs had loaded this time Avast was switched off and I could not start it. I then found that my Internet connection was gone I restarted again but found that some of my startup programs had not loaded. I then tried to update manually but without success. I installed them and on restarting I got the message that Avast had failed to update.

i thought this was strange as I use the Automatic Update feature and it is set to 0600hrs daily. When it restarted I saw there were Windows Updates downloaded but not installed. This evening however, while my daughter who also has an account on this PC but not an administrative one was on Google the PC crashed. For security on my PC also I have Comodo Firewall,Spybot S&D,AdAware, AVG Antispyware, Spyware Blaster installed, all up to date and used regularly. I have had Avast Home as my Antivirus for some time now without any problem other than an occasional update would not load which I then did manually.

Avast update problems december 2017