Hi,
Just installed Avast! on my moms machine this morning.
noticed that "merging icons" in the system tray causes both to disapear! She's running xp pro sp1a. This doesn't happen on three other machines that I take care of.
Maybe something introduced in more recent program builds?
It's hard to say if avast "on-access protection" is active but mail scanning works as expected.
uninstall/reinstall fixes it as long as I don't "merge icons".
I just read about the tray icon settings in avast4.ini , so next time I'm at my moms house, I'll play around with them a little.
Anyway, I just thought I'd pass on this info.
Peace, BlairJac