New to Avast! (4/free) after years of NAV. Running Win98SE on a P3 500mhz system w/ 384MB ram; 1.2MB/sec DSL; ZA 5 (free), FF 1.5 w/ NoScript, SpywareBlaster, RegProt.
Avast! installed fine, updated fine, claims to be "on" -- but systray icon has small red slash mark present at all times, and tooltip reads "On-Access scanner: O providers total; 0 running."
Attempts to manually set the resident scanners to "Standard" or "High" work but seem to reset immediately on close of interface.
So:
1. what does the red slash mean?
2. how do I enable resident scanning -- which I am assuming means real-time protection like I'm used to with NAV; is this correct?
3. Is this a feature of Avast or not? Does scanning initiate only when attempting to run a non-startup exe?
Simply put, how can I enable and verify complete protection with Avast?
All info appreciated, thanks!
JLJ