Avast! Free Edition 5 - Installs but won't update.

Alvin.C · **Posted:** Sat Jan 23, 2010 6:34 pm

Hi,

While Avast! Home Edition 4.8 installs and functions successfully in Windows Server 2003 / 2008 / 2008 R2 using the workaround provided by Scimatar, the newly released Avast! Free Edition 5 does not.

Avast! Free Edition 5 installs successfully in Windows 2008 R2, but it's unable to update the definitions successfully because it's use on Windows Server operating systems (and in a commercial environment) is not supported - as stated by an error message.

I'm using Windows Server 2008 R2 at home for non commercial purposes. Does anyone know of a workaround to getting Avast! Free Edition 5 to update successfully?

ss2man44 · **Joined:** Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:23 pm **Posts:** 3

I would also like to see if this can be fixed.

I tried using process monitor, but nothing useful came up for me.

wsecluded · **Joined:** Mon Feb 22, 2010 11:36 pm **Posts:** 1

Here you go. http://www.win2008workstation.com/win20 ... mment-7923

matthew28 · **Joined:** Thu Jul 29, 2010 9:18 pm **Posts:** 1

I had the same problem on Windows Server 2008,but i found a newer version which works fine when update.avast 5.0.462.

Seems the producer has fixed the issue,there are many servers on Win.

Avast! Free Edition 5 - Installs but won't update.

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