Hi there,
I have been a user of avast! for about half a year now and rate it very highly. However it seems that now I am having a few problems with it that have got me a bit worried.
Firstly, the icons in the systray often do not appear (a problem I had in the past which just ‘went away’ and now is back). Although checking the task manager shows they are in fact running it is annoying as it means I cannot access their options etc.
Secondly, I cannot for the life of me get access to the avast! program itself (i.e. I cannot open the interface to run scans, change options etc). It just fails to load entirely. I have tried completely reinstalling avast but this did not help.
Some background info that might be useful: avast warned me it found some worm or other (sorry I cannot remember the name of the worm) in a .exe file as part of a package I had downloaded ages ago. I moved it to the chest and manually deleted the file itself and everything it came with. Not sure if this is the reason avast is playing up but thought I should let you know.
Furthermore I have scanned my system using the avast cleaner and the boot-time scan but it has found nothing. I thought that this therefore means there may be some problem with my registry etc, but would really appreciate any ideas and thoughts from the people on this forum before I get fed up and just go ahead and reinstall or repair Windows XP!!
Okay so thank you for bearing with me through the description, I really hope that some people can help me and get me back to being a happy avast user again!!
Thanks in advance,
Ewan