The avast services I have are:
avast! Antivirus (Automatic, Not started)
avast! iAVS4 Control Service (Automatic, Started)
avast! Mail Scanner (Manual, Not started)
avast! Web Scanner (Manual, Not started)
The above error is from starting the "avast! Antivirus" service.
Looking at the properties of the service I see:
Both the RPC and the DCOM service are running.
I suspect this could be a UAC thing.
The '
Virtual Server RC2' is probably a red-herring. The machine runs Vista as its base OS. VS allows me to run a XP instance as a virtual machine on the vista box.
When I installed avast I was an admin and probably (though I can be certain) had UAC off.