hi, i have this problem where my anti virus software Avast is saying that some parts of the miner (xmr-stak.exe and miner.exe and zm.exe) how do i fix this?
You have to disable virus scanners while running the miner sadly. Miners have been classified as malware as many programs used to (and still do) mine crypto in the background without a user knowing. In this case you're wanting that so there's no risk.