Hello Scott,
We are sorry to know that the scan stopped working. This issue is caused due to an recent conflict with Windows Update. This issue will get permanently fixed with next Windows update. Temporarily, to fix this issue, we suggest you to uninstall and reinstall the Visual c++ redistributable file from your computer. Please click on this link to download and install this file https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679 . Feel free to contact us for further query regarding AVG.
Thank you
I am running Windows 10 on a new HP system…i've already removed and reinstalled and it did a full scan fine for a few days, but now it locks the whole system up when it hits the rootkit scan…HELP
Hello Scott,
We are sorry to know that the scan stopped working. This issue is caused due to an recent conflict with Windows Update. This issue will get permanently fixed with next Windows update. Temporarily, to fix this issue, we suggest you to uninstall and reinstall the Visual c++ redistributable file from your computer. Please click on this link to download and install this file https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679 . Feel free to contact us for further query regarding AVG.
Thank you