I can open services, and shut down Avast! manually with the self-protection module on,
provided I respond to the modal dialog it pops up filling the screen. In this way, I shut down
all 3 Avast! services.
However, it leaves the UI running (AvastUI.exe). I'm aware I can disable the self-protection module,
and then kill it with task manager, but I don't want to do that. When I attempt to kill it with task
manager, why doesn't it pop up another modal dialog which I can respond to to let me kill it?
As it stands, if I don't want to muck with the self-protection settings, it appears I have to
install a kernel mode process kill program specifically for this purpose. It seems silly because
the services (which I can shut down) are the critical pieces of Avast!, not the UI.
Please add this feature, or at least an "exit UI" option on the system tray icon.
(Yeah I'm aware I can hide the icon, but the task is still there, even if it isn't doing anything.)