In an earlier avast5 version a couple of days ago my Win7 x64 listet 3 services as follows:
avast! Antivirus, automatic, started
avast! Mail Scanner, manual, terminated
avast! Web Scanner, manual, terminated.
I was not able to modify the properties of the last two services and to restart them.
The following two facts suggest that at least the Mail-Scanner did run:
The avast! notes appeared on incoming/outgoing clean e-mail messages. In the GUI seven Real-Time Shields were reported running including the above.
After updating to version 5.1.889 I can only find 1 avast! service (avast! Antivirus, automatic, started). Does this mean that the two missing services point to some weakness in my avast! protection or is it rather an indication of avast! company having solved some of the version 5 problems?
Additional question:
Some time ago I had to uninstall and reinstall avast!5. If my memory serves me right the installation routine gave me an option to put a checkmark to something like “Load the avast! service after the other services”. I checked it then and would now like to undo this but cannot find such a setting in the GUI. Is there any or do I have to reinstall?
Intel Core i3 540 | 8 GB RAM | Windows 7 Pro x64 | Avast! 5.1.889 Free | Windows Defender | WinPatrol PLUS, | SpywareGuard | SpywareBlaster | HostsMan | Firefox 3.6 + NoScript