The company’s engineers also provided a special URL to download this hotfix. Interestingly, this is not the first time when was encountered this error, as on the network you can find similar complaints related to autoreactivator.exe dated 2017.Īccording to an official post on the Avast forum, the developers have already prepared an automatic update that solves the problem.
When I tried to start, the OS showed a message that it could not find the necessary file, as in the example below. So, one of the components of the AVG or Avast security solutions causes the creation of an Image File Execution Options entry in the registry for various applications, which should eventually be launched through the filter C:\Program Files(x86)\AVAST Software\Avast Cleanup\autoreactivator.exe.Ī recent update broke something in this filter, and as a result, the programs simply could not start. “As it turned out, the problem was not with the cumulative update for Windows 10, but with the update for Avast and AVG products“, – told Bleeping Computer journalists. Initially, it was assumed that a similar case takes place here. Complaints from users began to arrive last week, when people found that they could not start Microsoft Office and other applications.Īs we wrote, before Windows updates lead to failures in computers with Sophos, Avast and Avira software, and the specialists of these companies eventually found out what was the cause of these problems. Updating Avast now interferes in running of programs on Windows 10.
Bleeping Computer magazine warned that fixing a bug in the AVG and Avast applications led to changes in the registry, which caused problems in the system.
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