Today I started my machine and again the avast icon did not show.

Then I had the idea to try something, I closed the session, just the session not restart, and reopened the same session, then the icon appeared and the menu is useable I can open avast UI.

This proves there’s nothing wrong in my machine configuration, the configuration did not change, Avast just randomly behaves like that, sometimes you get the tray icon, sometimes not.

Maybe I’ll be able to use avast 9 after all, closing/reopening just session is acceptable for now as a workaround, but please look at the issues :

  • why deep screen sometimes accepts an app and sometimes not, and why when the app gets killed zombies are left
  • why sometimes the tray icon does not show and closing/reopening session on same machine may help make it show up