Avast Professional Edition v4.6.603?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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hi, i have been using norton antivirus since day one. i have now decided to give avast a shot. i have it installed now. i have a few question. does it scan all emails incoming and outgoing and is there an icon that goes down near the clock so i know that it is constantly running?

thanks

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I’m an ex-NAV too :stuck_out_tongue: Welcome! :smiley:

Yes, avast mail scanner could do that.
Left click the ‘a’ blue icon, chose the Internet Mail provider (or the Outlook plugin if you use MS Outlook) and set pop3/smtp scanning settings.
There is a possibility of having an icon on the system tray too 8)

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The latest version is 4.6.665 so you might want to do a manual program update. Right click the avast icon, Updating, select Update Program, this will also check for the latest virus pattern signatures.

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i have the lastest version installed but i don’t see any icons near my clock?

thanks

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Do you have any other antivirus installed in this system?
Are the avast services (Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services) running? Are they set to ‘Automatic’ start (except the mail service that is manual)?
Aren’t the icons ‘hidden’ by XP?

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Somehow I thought that this might happen, getting rid of Norton is harder than getting rid of many virus infections.

It may be that there are remnants of NAV remaining after you uninstalled it. There is usually an indication at start-up that some part of avast wasn’t started, etc.
If avast detects registry references to another anti-virus it usually doesn’t fully install so as not to cause a conflict. What avast processes are running in Task manager? - they begin with ash or asw, see image.

Check out the link/s relevant to your version of NAV.

The NAV 2003 removal tool can be downloaded here: ftp://ftp.symantec.com/misc/consumer/Rnav2003.exe
Manual Removal NAV 2004 - Manual Removal NAV 2004
Manual Removal NAV 2003 or earlier - Manual Removal NAV 2003 or earlier

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i have
ashmaisv.exe
ashserv.exe
ashwebsv.exe
aswupdsv.exe

looks like i am missing that one…

ashdisp.exe

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i just downloaded a norton 2005 removal tool off there site and then i used teh avast unistall tool to remove avast. i then reinstalled avast and its still not putting icons near the clock?

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Go to AVast folder and run ashdisp.exe. Check if it give a error message or try a repair.

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Ok try this.
Repair! missing avast icon download RejZoRs restore missing avast! icon tool - http://freeweb.siol.net/razor256/downloads/aswTrayIconFix.zip
Download it and extract aswTrayIconFix.exe anywhere you want.
Run it and just click Fix button. Log off and log in again or simply restart your PC and icons should be back again. The program is standalone extract&use (although it looks like installer).