Hi Technical-
I'm using 4.1 Home edition. When I click on the blue icon and get the dialog box titled "avast! On-Access Scanner" containing what I think you are referring to as the "provider settings" it shows the name of the last scanned file, but that filename doesn't seem to change after I navigate to another site and check it again. But when I open IE, the last scanned filename does change. So, I'm thinking the on-access protection isn't working, even though at the top of the dialog box, under the heading "Standard Shield" it says "The provider is currently running."
Do you know if others are able to use avast with firefox?