About two weeks ago I registered and got my little “a” icon, which spins around. But it isn’t bright blue like the one on my husband’s computer. Also I don’t get little voice messages like he does. So I re-registered today and got a box which allowed me to check my files for viruses. It came up with 13 adware/Trojan thingies, which I sent to the chest or vault or whatever it’s called. My question is: shouldn’t Avast! have been doing that? And why isn’t my icon bright blue? When I put the mouse over it all I get is “7 providers total 6 running.” What’s that mean? I don’t think it’s working but I’m not sure what to do about it.
The colour isn’t an issue and is more to do with your graphics card, monitor, icon size and background colour of your notification area, mine looks blue grey because of the shading effect trying to look like a 3D image.
avast has 7 different providers/Shields, unless you have the MS Outlook (not express) installed then the Outlook/Exchange provider won’t be running, this is normal (so you have 6 running out of 7 providers/shields). The avast ‘a’ icon rotates when files are being scanned.