Avast 6.0.1000 few little notices

[Dave78]

Just clean installed the new final Avast free 6.0.1000 on my Windows 7 x64 SP1.

Couple little things I guess overlooked I noticed.


Umm, let the gadget and webrep and everything else install normally.

1. But the gadget comes back after closing it out on the desktop, and terminating the sidebar.exe process. Normal behavior for a gadget should be if you close the particular gadget out and terminate and re-enable the sidebar.exe process, the gadget should not come back onto the desktop when re enabling the sidebar.exe process. It also reinstates itself to the desktop if you close it out and reboot.  

I don't see any setting for the gadget in the Avast UI, so I'm assuming there's no option to leave the gadget off until desired. Only to uninstall it.

Although you could uninstall the gadget, this isn't normal behavior for a gadget, and it should be. Now basically if I let the gadget install when installing Avast, I have to uninstall the gadget just to have it not reinstate itself onto the desktop after every boot.


2. Although there is an unistall option for both addons of webrep from the Avast UI, there should be a "Remove" option included from the add-ons page on Firefox/IE. There isn't, only "Disable" for Firefox, and nothing for through IE.

That's about it for now. Looks pretty good so far though.

[DavidR]

1. That is because I believe it is in the shared gadgets folder and isn't displayed in the gadgets gallery, so it can't be reset or uninstalled from there. You have to use add remove programs, avast, change/remove, Change and uncheck the Gadget option and OK your way out.

2. From the avastUI, Additional Protection, WebRep you can uninstall the webrep for one or more browsers.

[Dave78]

1. Ok, but it was listed in the Gadget pane, with the uninstall option like other gadgets.

Even if you uninstall it from there, and it acts like it is unistalled (because it removes itself from the Gadget pane) it still comes back up on the desktop after terminating the sidebar.exe process and re-enabling it.  And now it isn't listed in the gadget pane anymore, but still comes back. So, not normal gadget behavior.


2. I know, I mentioned that.

The point is it should have the options form the browser UI's as well.

[DavidR]

The reason fro the that is as I said it is in the shared gadgets folder so it will be constantly be reloaded.

You mean the avastUI as this has nothing to do with the browser (WebRep)

[Dave78]

Don't you think it should be made like any other gadget so that it can be properly uninstalled then?? I don't want it constantly reloading.

If I disable it, I want it to stay disabled. I have to uninstall it just to get it disabled? Ridiculous.

I don't get it.


Umm, how does the webrep have nothing to do with the browsers??

Of course it does, they're add-ons listed in the browsers add-on pages as well as listed in Avast's UI. It's in the browsers, why would you say it has nothing to do with the browsers?

[DavidR]

It really doesn't matter what I think (I have no control over that), but the situation as it is you have to do as suggested to completely remove it.

Sorry thought this was about the gadget alone.  But at least they can be uninstalled from the avastUI, Additional Protection, WebRep.

[robinb]

Webrep looks to me like WOT addon I have for Firefox and Goggle Chrome where people vote on goood bad or ugly sites are and gives you notices on the top of the browser for each page and when you search in google

robin

[Vlk]

Actually, WebRep is a combination of community voting and malware-related data feed from our virus lab. Of course, we don't quite consider the community ratings as a "security" feature in the sense that not very many community members can actually tell whether a given site is infected; but that's what's the virus lab data is for... On the onther hand, the community can usually very well tell whether a given e-shop is a good one or a poor one -- something our virus lab will hardly be able to do...

So, in a way, it's a great synergy between objective (viruslab) data and subjective (community) ratings.

Of course, we're now on the very start -- and only time will tell whether this concept works or not.


Thanks
Vlk

[Dave78]

er, any feedback on the 2 issues the thread is about?

[Ex_Brit]

This darned gadget starts up whether you want it to or not.  Webrep has nothing to do with it as I don't have that installed.

[DavidR]

Read my first reply.

1. That is because I believe it is in the shared gadgets folder and isn't displayed in the gadgets gallery, so it can't be reset or uninstalled from there.

You have to use add remove programs, avast, change/remove, Change and uncheck the Gadget option and OK your way out.
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Or in the case of Vista or win7, Control Panel, Uninstall a program,  change/remove, Change and uncheck the Gadget option and OK your way out.

[Ex_Brit]

Thanks.  That's what I did.

[DavidR]

You're welcome.