When I click on the Win 7 tray troubleshooter icon, it warns me to turn on Avast AntiVirus system. I click on the Avast tray icon and Enable all shields, but the Windows message is still there. Click on it and menu opens up to turn on Avast; click on this and then on the UAC request and get the error message as above in the subject. Meanwhile, I find through Process Explorer, the program that has been hogging 85% of CPUs for the past two days is Avast Free. I am refused access to stop the service directly or through the tree. I try to uninstall Avast and nothing happens. No doubt these refusals to my own program requests are meant to defeat malware gaining control, but I must be able to uninstall an anti-virus program gone over to the other side! How?
I'm using Win 7 Home, 32-bit and so far as I know have the latest updates.
While I'm at it, I get notes from Avast that my settings for my email program are preventing Avast from checking incoming emails, but I have modified the settings to conform to the instructions in the Zoot email settings for mail being forwarded from Yahoo, but still get such messages.
Also, the update messages and flags for Avast are intrusive, block the view, and startle me inappropriately with their volume. Have almost been pushed to uninstall for that alone. Why irritate people?