imo i would use the avast removal tool and then reboot. run something like ccleaner for the registry and then try a fresh install of 418. i have seen 0 issues with the upgrade myself though
I looked at their site and I’m unsure considering the FUD that is on the front page about other products. User habits and how savvy they are determines more how many infections a system may have more than the anti-virus itself . Once you are infected anti-virus can only do so much to protect you.
I would guess that those numbers are worst offenders (shields off or no longer getting updates due to expired subscriptions).
I dunno if it works cool. But this looks like another full featured Anti-viral/Anti-Malware program when you should have one or the other.
No problems running .418 with Prevx 3.0.5.67 (see configurations in signature). What version are you using? And OS, version of ZAP, etc. Did you do the uninstall and clean reinstall?
Maybe try a later version of Prevx first-yours is quite out of date, and they have made a bunch of compatibility type changes since then. The clean install is just because there have been a few update problems in previous Avast! 5 versions, but Alwil has seemed to have fixed them-just maybe only “most of them”.
The reason I’m using the 3.0.165 version is because I don’t want to get the "safe online " feature with the newer versions.
I have read that there were problems with this feature, and I believe Prevx is not actually asking users of 3.0.165 to up date. In fact, trying to update within the Prevx program, says that I have the latest version.
I use Sandboxie and I’m afraid that might conflict with that feature also.
just tested for you on one of my test systems. i installed prevx trial and then avast 5. i had a similar result to you!!! with prevx removed and or disabled or set to manual problems go away. so yes it seems something is either being triggered by avast or by prevx causing this. i did use prevx 3 and avast is5 for testing fyi.
Try the avast-setting to load after all other processes have loaded - I don’t know the correct expression in the settings right now.
This setting will delay the loading of avast services so other services have enough time to load and set up their tray icons. The symptom is a known XP behaviour and a timing problem in the startup sequence.
Even though the icons don’t show: the services are working correctly,so no harm is done.
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Interesting. I just don’t see how this new build could cause any new compatibility problems (compared to v396). Pretty much all the changes are very conservative.
I’m afraid it may just be some ghost bug that will appear with build 396 eventually…
Vlk, it’s most probably not a compatability prob.
When I was running WIN XP Pro, this happened quite often after software installations, it is, as I posted above, a kind of timing problem in the WIN startup sequence and discussed in many forums.
Many “solutions” to this behaviour have been posted throughout the web, but to my knowledge none of them work for every machine, thus there is no panacea to cure it.
I just ignored it.
Sometimes this worked for me: went to sys control, sound options and turned off the volume control task bar icon. Rebooted. All icons appeared (miraculously). Then turned on again the volume control icon. Rebooted. Everything fine.
As said: worked only sometimes. Sometimes the behaviour cured itself after any windows update…
Again, the missing of icons does not effect the actual services: everything is working as it should.
zyndstoff, You say it’s probably not a compatibility issue, then why did everything work fine under 396 and as soon as I updated to 418 the problem started?
I agree, it’s probably a timing issue, but I still don’t understand why that timing issue wasn’t there with 396.
Possibly because the load time of the new avast version is just milli-seconds longer? All this timing takes place in time-frames well under a wink of the eye, so the ever so slightest changes can make a difference.
As I said: I observed this behaviour many a times on my machine back when I was still on XP.
Try to disable the nvidia/ati icon in the tray (according to your driver ati or nvidia) via the ati/nvidia settings. That’s something nobody really needs, and it just might solve your problem. Most of the icons in the tray aren’t needed anyway (like Logitech’s Setpoint icon, the ATI/Nvidia Icons e.g.). But they take time to load, millisecs only, but time.
