Using Avira as my main scanner and Avast as my backup on-demand scanner,
I want to disable Avast Pro from loading anything at startup.

Even when I'm logged on as Admin I cannot disable the services
ashServ.exe and aswUpdSv.exe from starting, with either msconfig or a
third party service manager.

Any ideas how I can disable those two from loading at startup?

try to disable them in services.
go to control panel / administrative tools / services


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tommy

On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:44:27 +0100, Iapetus wrote:

> Using Avira as my main scanner and Avast as my backup on-demand scanner,
> I want to disable Avast Pro from loading anything at startup.
>

I'd uninstall Avast.

On-demand AV applications.
(add them to your arsenal and use them as a "second opinion" av scanner).
David H. Lipman's MULTI_AV Tool
http://www.pctipp.ch/ds/28400/28470/Multi_AV.exe
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
English:
http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/...irus-for-free/
Additional Instructions:
http://pcdid.com/Multi_AV.htm
--and/or--
BitDefender10 Free Edition (*NOT FOR VISTA*)
http://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-1...e-Edition.html
Kaspersky's AVPTool
http://downloads5.kaspersky-labs.com/devbuilds/AVPTool/
There's no updating involved since the scanning engine is updated
several times a day and you simply download the updated scanner whenever
you want to do a scan.
--and/or--
Dr.Web CureIt!® Utility - FREE
http://www.freedrweb.com/cureit/
--and/or--
Malwarebytes© Corporation - Anti-Malware
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam/program/mbam-setup.exe
Note: It is Free for private use. Just download (do NOT buy) and install.

Kayman wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:44:27 +0100, Iapetus wrote:
>
>> Using Avira as my main scanner and Avast as my backup on-demand scanner,
>> I want to disable Avast Pro from loading anything at startup.
>>
>
> I'd uninstall Avast.
>

I don't want to.

Tommy McClure wrote:
> try to disable them in services.
> go to control panel / administrative tools / services
>
>

No different, can stop the service but not set it to manual or disable.

Iapetus wrote:
>Using Avira as my main scanner and Avast as my backup on-demand scanner,
>I want to disable Avast Pro from loading anything at startup.
>
>Even when I'm logged on as Admin I cannot disable the services
>ashServ.exe and aswUpdSv.exe from starting, with either msconfig or a
>third party service manager.
>
>Any ideas how I can disable those two from loading at startup?

HJT will list run services
and show you which of these troublesome keys to delete,
IIRC it will even do it for you.

ASCII wrote:
> Iapetus wrote:
>> Using Avira as my main scanner and Avast as my backup on-demand scanner,
>> I want to disable Avast Pro from loading anything at startup.
>>
>> Even when I'm logged on as Admin I cannot disable the services
>> ashServ.exe and aswUpdSv.exe from starting, with either msconfig or a
>> third party service manager.
>>
>> Any ideas how I can disable those two from loading at startup?
>
> HJT will list run services
> and show you which of these troublesome keys to delete,
> IIRC it will even do it for you.


Found out how to. In the troubleshooting part of the setting there is an
option to disable Avast self-defense module.