AVG and Avast! coexist? (semi-long)

I have been using AVG6 on a WinXP machine for several months now as my
primary resident, on-access and email AV scanner. As a secondary line
of defense I recently installed Avast! Home as my on-demand scanner.
I purposely did a custom install and did NOT install any of the
resident on-access components. Now when I boot up, I get an Avast!
error dialog box stating that it has found AVG6 resident components
and therefore has disabled all of the Avast! on-access, resident
components (which are not even installed!). Although I hate seeing
this dialog every time I boot, I suppose I could live with it. The
real problem is this:

After closing the above mentioned error dialog, Avast! appears in the
systray but with the red circle with a slash through it, no doubt due
to the resident components being disabled. When I double-click the
systray icon or right-click and select "Start Avast! I get the
following error dialog box:

"The AAVM subsytem detected and RPC error. The operation could not be
completed." And that's as far as it gets.

If instead, I double-click the regular desktop shortcut icon, Avast!
goes through its memory and startup scan and then promptly minimizes
to the taskbar where it can only be closed. It cannot be made to
appear on the screen normally.

The only way that I can get Avast! to do an actual scan is to select a
drive, folder, file, or group of files with Explorer and right-click
then use the context menu to scan from there. This does not show the
usual "skinnable" program display but rather just shows a plain-jane
rectangular box. I does, however seem to scan OK.

Has anyone gotten these two programs to coexist with AVG6 as the
primary resident scanner and Avast! as the secondary on-demand
scanner? I've done a fair amount of Googling and searching of the
Avast website but haven't found any definitive help.

Thanks in advance,

Tom

p.s. I had no such problems setting up this arrangement with Anti-Vir
as the secondary on-demand scanner.

Tom Geer wrote:
> I have been using AVG6 on a WinXP machine for several months now as my
> primary resident, on-access and email AV scanner. As a secondary line
> of defense I recently installed Avast! Home as my on-demand scanner.
> I purposely did a custom install and did NOT install any of the
> resident on-access components. Now when I boot up, I get an Avast!
> error dialog box stating that it has found AVG6 resident components
> and therefore has disabled all of the Avast! on-access, resident
> components (which are not even installed!). Although I hate seeing
> this dialog every time I boot, I suppose I could live with it. The
> real problem is this:
>
> After closing the above mentioned error dialog, Avast! appears in the
> systray but with the red circle with a slash through it, no doubt due
> to the resident components being disabled. When I double-click the
> systray icon or right-click and select "Start Avast! I get the
> following error dialog box:
>
> "The AAVM subsytem detected and RPC error. The operation could not be
> completed." And that's as far as it gets.
>
> If instead, I double-click the regular desktop shortcut icon, Avast!
> goes through its memory and startup scan and then promptly minimizes
> to the taskbar where it can only be closed. It cannot be made to
> appear on the screen normally.
>
> The only way that I can get Avast! to do an actual scan is to select a
> drive, folder, file, or group of files with Explorer and right-click
> then use the context menu to scan from there. This does not show the
> usual "skinnable" program display but rather just shows a plain-jane
> rectangular box. I does, however seem to scan OK.
>
> Has anyone gotten these two programs to coexist with AVG6 as the
> primary resident scanner and Avast! as the secondary on-demand
> scanner? I've done a fair amount of Googling and searching of the
> Avast website but haven't found any definitive help.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Tom
>
> p.s. I had no such problems setting up this arrangement with Anti-Vir
> as the secondary on-demand scanner.
My advice would be to have Avast be your real time scanner, and AVG be
your on demand. I have a simular setup, where Sophos is my real time,
AVG is my on-demand scanner, both have regularly scheduled scans
overnight, and AVG does all my e-mail scanning. The neat thing about my
setup is, when AVG does the e-mail scanning, Sophos checks it first
(because the file is being accessed by another program [AVG]), then AVG
checks it if Sophos misses it, so it's like having two scanners, even
though only one is set to do the actual scanning. Anyway, haven't had
any problems with my current setup.

--
William

If it don't work, hit it.
If it still don't work, kick it.
If it works after that, than it doesn't matter if that helped, what's
important is it works.