New user here and so far, avast is working well compared to other free AVs.
When I start my computer and the avast icon comes up in the system tray, a red mark appears on the icon for a bit then goes away.
I have the animation turned off and have the vrdb and program icons combined.
I have not generated a vrdb yet.
What does the red mark in the icon mean?
If it goes away within a few seconds, it’s just a delay in avast starting. Avast seems to run ok after that. Seems only a few xp machines are effected.
Alanrf has done considerable research into this and has some conclutions. Hope he posts them soon.
Thanks. What you said makes sense. I only notice this on my slow laptop and not on my desktop. It is as you say, I think, the resident scanner hasn’t started yet. It’s only on for a few seconds.
Avast seems to work in all other respects.
Any other comments are welcome.
Thanks again.
Alan’s experience with avast updates that could be, perhaps, the same for the icon on system tray.
This is especially true during Windows update week. Windows automatic updates seem to hog resources even to just determine that updates do exist but you are just not allowed to download them yet (to prevent overload of Microsoft’s servers). So this is happening at every startup during the Windows update period until you have been permitted to download the updates. Although I do not have “smoking gun” logs to prove it (a bit hard to get on an overloaded system at startup) I am reasonably certain that the Windows automatic update process, at this time, can prevent the avast automatic VPS update from getting timely access to it servers and causing avast to report an automatic update error - especially on older, less powerful systems. This past week was Windows update week, some folks this week waited 4 or 5 days before being permitted to download the Windows updates through the automatic update process.