I also agree with this - perhaps they could make an animation on the avast! tray icon to show it's running a scan instead?
The tray icon has never been used to indicate an on-demand scan, how could you identify the difference between on-access scans.
Personally I don't use the on-demand or a scheduled on-demand scan (other than for testing purposes).
- With a resident (on-access) scanner the need for on-demand scans is much depreciated. For the most part dormant/inert files are being scanned, the other active files are going to be scanned by the resident shields when they are activated.
You could always kick off the screen saver scan or schedule a scan when the system is running but when you aren't going to be busy.