Apologies if this has been posted - this is a BUSY forum!
A couple days ago I booted my Windows 7 system, and the Avast icon (Avast Pro, v5.1.889) had a warning icon (yellow triangle with exclamation).
When I opened it, several of my scanners were not enabled, and it cautioned me I was not protected. I rebooted, and got the same warning, but when I opened the application, it said all scanners were running and my system was secure.
Then today, I noticed the same icon on my wife's machine (same version) which is running Windows XP. As a precaution I rebooted and did a full boot scan, and again, it came up fine.
I've never seen scanners fail to start before. I'm wondering what is causing this, and if anyone else is experiencing it.
It worries me, because I've been hearing recently about new viruses that are deactivating virus scanners.
I added a password on my system as a precaution, and I'm grateful that Avast let me know there was a problem, but I'd very much like to figure out what is causing this on two different systems running two different O/S'.
Thanks for your help!
Jim