Spyder crashes after new environment install

[Danilo Santiago]

Hello all:

My Anaconda was acting up, so I decided to reinstall it. Now, when I try to install the latest version of Spyder, in a new environment, here is what happens:

1) The installation runs smoothly

2) If I open Spyder (through Anaconda Powershell), Syper runs. Even my previous formatting (i.e., panes positions) come up as before. 

3) After a few seconds, Spyder crashes

4) If I try to rerun Spyder, I get the following error (see text in red below):

Any idea why is this happening? I have installed Spyder updates in a new environment on another machine and don't have this issue.

Thanks,

Danilo

[Rational-IM]

After some investigation, I found the culprit: Avast (which I only have installed in this particular machine). 

The anti-virus company was recently bought by Norton. As expected, there were changes - so the company released "a new version" of their software a couple of weeks ago. Their malware shield was - in a "stealth mode" (i.e., differently from Windows 10 native antivirus, it didn't provide an alert about the action) - quarantining some .exe files. 

I might reinstall Avast again in the future (but will have to find out how to allow specific files to run). But as of now, I uninstalled it - the Spyder update (in a new environment) worked.