Every time I boot the pc I get the same alert message from Avast telling me that NAV is installed and as such Avast has disabled its resident scanner etc… However, when I installed Avast I told it that I didn’t want the resident stuff switched on precisely to avoid a clash. I want NAV for my resident scanner and Avast for my on-demand.
Please tell me how I can get rid of the message because it is very annoying to have to keep clicking it away on startup.
When you go to the Control Panel / Add/Remove Programs, select avast! Antivirus, press Change and choose Change again - what avast! modules are installed?
I’m not running any horrifically memory-intensive programs so it doesn’t really affect me. Norton came with the pc and I thought that the combination of Norton and Avast would be quite a powerful combination.
I don’t know why you would think that two crippled AV programs are better than one whole one?
Actually, 2 memory resident AV programs only conflict just like to Firewalls conflict. More, is not always better. As an Ex Norton user, I can tell you however that in my opinion, Avast! is the better choice.
I don’t think you have read my posts properly. I am well aware that having two resident AV programs will cause conflicts, hence the fact that I have never activated Avast’s resident scanning. Norton is my resident program and I use Avast for a weekly on-demand scan. It is for precisely this reason that having the message come up every time I start the machine is so very annoying.
Gotcha. Why, however, after installing and reinstalling (each time specifying that I didn’t want any resident stuff installed) was I having this problem?
amcg, if you do not install any resident (note, I do not say disable, I say ‘not install’) you won’t install the antivirus…
Only with Skins, English Language Extension and English Help I think you have nothing but an antivirus… :
Most probably ashUpdSv.exe (the update service) or anything else…
Look, you have in theory two antivirus… but more than this, you have Norton
Ok, everything could happen… If you want to use avast!, well, it will be better and simple just throw awai NAV…