The way I understand it is if the "Silent Mode" is selected, any infected files will be dealt with automatically according to the following rules: If Yes is selected, file will be automatically deleted. If No is selected, file will automatically put in virus chest. If no boxes are checked, Avast will ask you how you want to deal with the infected file. HTH. Terry

My problem is/was when opening a post like on this forum or especially an a MAC forum or MAC store (Apple.com) the page would come right up but it would take a real long time to load like up to 30 seconds. This did not happen on all forums or sites. Some were right snappy. I thot it might be the new antivirus programs' improvements (I spect they are all about the same) so wanted to run barefoot to see if it made a difference. That's why I tried to disable Avast, my currently installed AV. That's when I couldn't connect with a browser but could with email. Long story short, I went to the LAN settings and unchecked "Use a Proxy server....." and 2 things resulted. 1. I could connect with Avast disabled. 2. The pages loaded fast, fast enough, or at least not with super long delays. Restarting Avast and leaving the "Use a Proxy server..." unchecked eliminates the big long loading delay. Now I have no idea what will result by leaving that unchecked. This is not what the MS site calls for. I can't tell if my free ZA is blocking cookies with privacy control turned on -I don't believe it comes with the free version, prolly just ZA Pro. ================================================ Another weird thang: 2. When I uncheck (ashdisp) in msconfig > start > reboot it comes back checked. And running - can't beat it to death. In fact one time I unchecked it and it came back checked but everything else was unchecked????

go to that webshield area like above and look where it says scanned count if that shows actual numbers as a count and not zero or if you go to pages and that number does change it is ok if it is not changing then there could be a problem. Do you have zone alarm by any chance? because for some of us there was a conflict and we had to change a proxy setting in our browsers when using Avast. There is a thread on here about that which may turn up on a search, I had posted the directions on how to set it up. This page from the Avast forum also tells how to do that. Configuration of the Web Shield HTTP proxy

I just renewed my subscription two days ago, and I have had absolutely no problems. BTW, renewing is so much easier than it used to be. No waiting for a license number as before.