AVG8 - problem with Resident Shield

WinXP Home SP2. I installed AVG on this PC yesterday and it installed just fine, no errors, no pop-ups, no weirdness, nothing. This morning, I power up the PC and see the AVG icon in the system tray has ye olde red exclamation point. Assuming it was an update issue, I manually started the update process which finished w/o incident, no errors, no pop-ups, no weirdness, but the "!" persists. So I poke around.... the attached screen shot says it all... I'm going to uninstall and re-install, but in the meantime, if anyone has any input or thoughts, feel free to share. :-D

 

No driver for the resident shield? :-D Probably was DUI and was arrested. :-D

Yeah, good thing to remove and re-install AVG.

Had recently some issues with AVG. I removed it and re-installed AVG. It installed without a hitch but when I opened AVG, there were NO COMPONENTS INSTALLED .... as in the whole darn AVG box was EMPTY!! Removed and re-installed yet again. *sigh* All together had to remove and re-install about 4x in the last few weeks!

 

Malware issue? Maybe go do a scan of the system with an online scanner for a second opinion? (I like Kaspersky--Castlecops sent me there once and I use it if I think AVG might be missing something. It takes a long time, but I think it's thorough.)