Hey all, this is my first post here after installing the Avast 4.6 Home Edition yesterday; the free variant of Avast anti-virus. As you may see, I have quite a few questions in regard to URL Exceptions in Web Shield resident protection "provider".
1. What is the difference between adding (if any):
http://arstechnica.com/and
http://arstechnica.com/*2. Is it possible to use wildcards like this below, since it says "
You may use wildcards in all fields":
http://*.arstechnica.com/ (for
http://episteme.arstechnica.com and
media.arstechnica.com to be exlcuded too)
3. Additionally, it is possible to use more than one wildcard (in a single entry/string):
http://*.arstechnica.com/* (or
http://*.arstechnica.com/ would acomplish the same; see also question "1." above ??)
4. Also, it would be nice if it would be possible to import the list of URLs; all the URLs at the same time instead of adding them separately one by one. Curious, where does Avast store this list of excepted URLs ?? I also seached the registry and "
avast4.ini" file's contents; and well other files under "D:\Program Files\Avast\" directory too for the string "arstechnica" which previously put there, but to no avail (
/EDIT: Oh, I see now with Filemon program from Sysinternals that the list is probably stored in an encrypted/binary form in "
Avast4.mdb" file)
I am also wondering, is there any limit, meaning that if there are more than 100 URLs for instance, the process of querying this list would impact performance significally etc. Oh and one more thing; after excluding various URLs in a
http://somedomain.com/* manner as suggested in the Avast help-file, I see them anyway being processed in "On-Access Protection Control" window under "Last scanned". Curious, is this normal or what ??
P.S., Is the UI glitch after adding a URL a common bug, i.e. the glitch that the window doesn't refreshes itself, but one needs to go to some other tab and back to see the real window contents (btw., I noticed this minor bug in other parts of Avast too) ??
thanks for any reply, satyr