Avast active in real time?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
1

I don’t see an Avast ball in my taskbar like I usually see. My icons are not hidden and Avast is set to start in msconfig. When I click Resident Scanner all I get is a Sensitivity scale.

2

How do you click the Resident Scanner if the avast icon is missing ?
You can expand this view by clicking the Details… >> button.

Have you had another AV installed (or still installed) on this system, if so what and how was it removed ?
Do you have any other security software that might have an effect on start-up items ?

  • example, AdAware, Spybot S & D, WinPatrol, etc.

As a temporary measure until this is resolved, you can create a desktop shortcut for ashDisp.exe that will give you your avast icon but only for the duration that your system is left on.

3

I haven’t seen my Avast icon in the notification area for days either, I have to keep starting it manually too. It doesn’t seem to start up anymore. Somethings happened to it. I think I shall try and re-install it.

4

I would start by answering the same question I asked ‘cool9’ and see if any are applicable, if not you could try, uninstall, reboot, install, reboot.

5

I can click the Resident Scanner in the Avast GUI. I was using AVG but disabled it last week. The Avast button on the task bar was then showing up in the task bar and I assume it was then active. Maybe I’ll try to reinstall. I disabled AVG in MSCONFIG and enabled AVAST in MSCONFIG.

6

As has been mentioned many times in the forums having two resident scaners can cause conflicts, this may be one, I don’t know. Disabling in msconfig may not disable automatic start processes.

Older versions of AVG didn’t cause any conflict but the latest version does.

This is from Tech who has used this setup in testing. AVG - As Backup Scanner.

  1. Install avast. Boot. Setup all providers as you want/need. Update, etc.
  2. Boot
  3. Install AVG using a customized install and NOT INSTALLING any resident (not even for the email, or Outlook, etc.).
  4. Boot
  5. You can set the AVG services to manual to reduce resources use. You can set AVG Control to not alert about the absence of residents, etc.
7

This definitively does not work… it will conflict at driver (low) level.
You can’t uninstall ANY resident (not even the email scanner).