This is a revision to my earlier post today.
I meant to indicate the possible conflict with
Spysweeper (not Spycatcher). Sorry.

To reiterate:

I have the same situation regarding
what people are saying is a ‘false
positive’ on the disp file in Spysweeper
making the Avast 4.5 home edition icons
not appear on the sys tray.

These are the programs that appear to
be processing in background:

ashmaisv.exe
avast! antivirus service (ashserv.exe?)
aswupdsv.exe

Question: Until this is resolved - even
without the icons there, do I still have
resident protection?