Fore the first 4 week Avast worked really well but now when I boot up it takes 2 minutes for the Resident protection to activate.
I get a small red circle in the bottom right hand corner of the Avast icon in the tool bar which stays there for two minutes during which time my computer freezes.
![Huh ???](https://forum.avast.com/Smileys/default/huh.gif)
I am running on windows XP sp2 and IE7
I have tried repairing and reinstalling Avast
I thought it could of been a firewall problem so I uninstalled Norton firewall
Theses did not help so I thought I would ask for some external help