how do you disable NAV?

my friend is going to scan his computer with a few online and standalone scanners, he has alot of malware. i think he needs to disable his NAV, do you know how to do this. thanks

 

in an email ive told him to right-click system tray icon and pick disable. is that correct?

 

I do not use NAV, but this seems the standard way to disable the Real Time Monitor of most AV's

The system tray icon then changes to show this disabling; a large red cross or equivalent. To double-check you can then run Task Manager, looking for the absence of the NAV Monitor process.

 

thanks, Blackcat.

 

This is indeed correct. The tray icon will then display with a red cross. The only problem is that at times NAV re-enables itself, comes back on. I don't know why it does this, what triggers this, I simply disable it again.

Acadia

 

thanks, Blackcat and Acadia. i'll let him know. i hope he finds his system tray icons ok. i had to tell him its the tray at the bottom right of screen(next to clock) its the yellow icon in that tray. im a newbie to computers, it makes me wonder- what have all these people that have had computers for years been doing thats a rhetorical question, please dont answer