Hi !
This freeware will prevent malware from disabling your resident guard.
Many new virusses and trojans (beast, optic pro, Donald dick) etc these days include process termination functions for most security software. If they can disable your software your helpless and doomed !
Avast home doesn't (offer) protect his own processes ,but with "Process guard from Diamonds" you can do it yourself !
The freeware version can only protect 1 process though, but is more than enough to add the resident shield.
I believe Pro users don't need it, as they can setup a password needed to disable Avast. (just like in Zonealarm Pro)
It works good for me...(win XP sp1) :
http://www.diamondcs.com.au/processguard/Kind regards,
Waldo