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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: halbridious on June 29, 2012, 08:49:16 PM

Title: SafeZone Issues
Post by: halbridious on June 29, 2012, 08:49:16 PM

SafeZone is a great idea, if you want it.  I DON'T.  But every time I open firefox, it opens.  Every few seconds, it opens.
I cannot find, in these forums or in the program, an option to turn this off.  I will be uninstalling Avast if this keeps happening, because this is no different than a virus popping ads up in my face.

And because I have 4 tabs that open with firefox (i have 3 pinned and a new tab always opens) i get 4 separate windows in safe zone as well.  that's an issue in and of itself.

I've been a long time user of avast (Its been on computers I own long for 3 years now) but this may just break my streak :/

Title: Re: SafeZone Issues
Post by: MrBell on June 29, 2012, 09:51:37 PM

Same issue here today, with Chrome.  I have noticed that in the last hour, all three of my machines have notices that updates to Avast are now available (wondering/hoping that they caught this issue and the update will solve the problem).  Ergh!

Title: Re: SafeZone Issues
Post by: blaze41 on June 29, 2012, 10:12:59 PM

I have noticed the same issue after the recent update. It never used to do this. now its really annoying. It even opens safe zone an like 6 browser windows. I thought it was some kind of virus that was affecting it but virus scan comes up clean.

Title: Re: SafeZone Issues
Post by: Damask_F on July 01, 2012, 01:56:33 PM

It keeps happening to me also. I've updated my free avast antivirus, and now I get a grey textured screen popping up while browsing the internet. The screen is just like the one on this post. http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=84516.msg687050;topicseen#msg687050 (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=84516.msg687050;topicseen#msg687050)  It is so frustrating, it happens about once every ten minutes. I can see no options to switch it off, I don't know what to do apart from uninstall avast and use a different antivirus. Its like having a computer with a virus.

Please help, I'm about 12 hours away from uninstalling, I have no choice. I'd obviously rather not, I have used avast for years now and love it, but this is driving me crazy

Title: Re: SafeZone Issues
Post by: Asyn on July 01, 2012, 01:59:33 PM

Read here: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=100276.msg801406#msg801406