I have Avast! Home version 4.8 Home, Build Dec2008 (4.8.1296), Xtreme Toolkit 1.9.4.0, Active Skin version 4.2.7.3
VPS Version : 081230 - 0
Laptop, HP, AMD Turion64 X2, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB internal and 160 GB external Hard Disk
Vista SP1, with all the latest updates installed till 30/12/2008.
Avast is running in the system tray, the blue icon with 'a' showing, mouse over shows - avast! On-Access Scanner: 6 provider(s) total, 6 running, I am able to scan individual file via right click menu.
Vista security center shows in Virus Protection:
avast! antivirus reports that it is turned off.
When I click on turn on now, It asks me if I trust the program. (UAC)
I click on yes, i trust this program, and am ready to run it...
After confirmation, avast! comes up with this error....
avast!: Unknown error.
Program cannot activate resident part (Standard Shield provider not found)
What should I do? Is resident scanner working on my computer? If not, how can I activate it?