Thanks, I can't believe it, the Avast icon is back this morning. Now when they did the update night before last, I told it to do the update then shut the computer down, which it did. But now that you mention that, it seems that it doesn't load the updates until you turn it back on the next morning. But of course last night I shut down the computer and the Avast icon is back this morning.
Glad things are back to normal.
When things don't work right, I always restart the system at least twice.
Then if I still have a problem, I start looking for other solutions.
Today was a great day for problems for me. (I thought yesterday was the 13th?)
1. Space bar on the keyboard stopped working - Fix was a replacement keyboard. Wasted 3 hrs. trying to fix the problem.
2. Monitor orientation switched from horizontal to vertical - Took me about 1/2 hr. to reset the orientation.
Figuring out how to maneuver the mouse was a bit..
3. Bluetooth started to misfunction on my android phone. A restart fixed that problem.
Tomorrow has to be a less problematic day.