Hi.
You're right about that, Tech, Spy Sweeper is not blocking the services, low level drivers, etc. But I wish it could, because what I can control with Spy Sweeper I can start, and stop, and start again whenever I want. With Avast's low-level, intricate mechanisms, you seem to deliberately try and force people to use only your program.
Which brings me to the next issue. You say I should change my priorities. But that is very easy for you to suggest, I am sure, for you work for Avast.
But I have been using AntiVir for a long time. I have to see that Avast works perfectly, or at least better than AntiVir, to allow the change in resident protections, and so far Avast has performed very badly. (Otherwise, I wouldn't be asking for help on these forums, I'm sure you realize.)
How can I let your program to handle the security of my PC, when I, for starters, can't even change the configuration? (And blaming other programs for your own malfunctions is not something that would attract me to use your products. You might as well be working for Microsoft, with their sucky creations; if their operating systems weren't so crappy and accident-prone, I wouldn't even need Avast or AntiVir, but that's another story...)
And, after asking for help in this forum, I don't know if even you, who work for Avast, know what to do to fix some bugs in your own program. How can you not tell me how to make your program update manually when it refuses? (Even I knew enough to go into Avast4.ini, but unfortunately I didn't find that option in there. I believe you should know where it is, though.) But perhaps you don't want to tell me...
(I'll stop posting on this forum if you're not willing to at least try and help me. I could have deleted those entries from the registry 10 times now, if I hadn't lost so much time to ask you repeatedly how to do it more productively.)
Sorry I'm being so blunt, but would you please tell me if it's possible and/or how to stop those services in a nice way, or not? That's all I am asking, and it is the only reply I am interested in.