Hi all i have just joined you all as a newbie,i initially had problems with AVAST 4.0 FREE EDITION,downloaded the program yesterday 27th august 2004,the problem was not the download- but afterwards,after setting up a few preferences,all seemed well, and i did a scan,so far so good,2 PING PONG BALLS in the toolabar.
I did have NAV 2003 still installed but de-activated,so i closed my internet connection down went to bed happy!.In the morning booted up and i had the DESKTOP AVAST ICON appear-though but no BLUE PING PONG BALLS in theTOOLBAR and no control panel?.
I had to uninstall avast totally and reload program,the whole program again everything ok again?,closed down restarted same problem no icons?
After reading that their might be a conflict with running 2 AV PROGRAMS at the same time i UNINSTALLED NAV 2003 and VOILA!,problem solved,learning all the time!,my hesitation in not getting rid of NAV was my undoing,i was just being wise and careful but learned a lessom ,hope this helps someone!.
P.S SO far AVAST 4.0 seems to be doing its job ok!
best regards
deep purple