Hi,
I recently installed avast home 4.0. Yesterday I had some problems with the mail scanner (which I ended up disabling). Today and yesterday evening when I booted up my computer everything runs fine except MS Messenger. Task manager shows that msmsgs.exe is running but no icon is in the system tray. I have tried ending the process and restarting Messenger, but it still doesn't appear. Is avast blocking this in some way or is my problem elsewhere.
Without Messenger running properly it also takes Outlook Express about 10 min to start up so this problem is very annoying.
Thanks for any help the forum can give.