This is the file reputation (cloud scanning) system. It's a key part of the innovations introduced in avast v7 (and, seriously, it is saving tens of thousands of our users from malware every day).
If you're uncomfortable with it though, you're of course free to disable it. Summary -> Cloud Services -> Settings -> uncheck "Enable reputation services" (I'm not sure but the changes may not become effective until after the next reboot).
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Vlk
Sure thing.@End_User
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Vlk
Wow, I never understand people who want to cripple their AV service to the point where the AV can not do it's job of complete protection.There are people on the internet who do know how to change their own tire you know.
I know what I'm doing when browsing the internet.:)
I have my updates set to happen every 16440 minutes because I know what I'm doing when browsing the internet.
I have reputation services disabled, and streaming updates disabled.
Despite that, I still find Avast blocking access to some really freshly made sites because the reputation of that site is untrusted, so apparently the status of the above is disregarded.
I don't want to cripple it, I want it to update when I tell it to update, and that's when I'm _NOT_ using the computer.
This is the file reputation (cloud scanning) system. It's a key part of the innovations introduced in avast v7 (and, seriously, it is saving tens of thousands of our users from malware every day).
If you're uncomfortable with it though, you're of course free to disable it. Summary -> Cloud Services -> Settings -> uncheck "Enable reputation services" (I'm not sure but the changes may not become effective until after the next reboot).
Thanks
Vlk
The Repair function basically makes sure that everything is installed as it would be after a clean installation (let's say except for keeping the settings etc.)
Wheter it always succeeds or fail sometimes, is completely unrelated to this topic. First, we don't want to tell people "please navigate to Control Panel and invoke the Repair", and second this is meant for the hypothetical case of a bad (e.g. Virus definition) update being released that breaks things - and Repair wouldn't help there anyway, cause the virus definitions would be correctly installed, just would crash the program.
Or, the setup component itself might get broken - which contains both the updating and repair functionality.
This is a relatively new feature - the avast! emergency update, is a scheduled task, but it shouldn't run that frequently (a couple of times a day I think), I know it runs shortly after boot on my system.
Avast! Emergency Update - see Vlk's brief explanation, http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=99540.msg794105#msg794105 (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=99540.msg794105#msg794105).
No it isn't an update as such but a check to see if there is an emergency update available. If so as an avast user I don't know if it would be push or pull by the AvastEmUpdate.exe process. But it isn't envisaged that an emergency update would be a regular occurrence.
Whilst currently there is no UI setting to disable it - The second quote that I gave is from a topic which talked extensively about it.
allow the Avast product to continue and provide AV protection while allowing the end_user or administrators to kill the network noise when needed --for other unrelated issues.It's the same as asking avast! to knowingly allow you to run avast! partially crippled and thereby exposing you to
Point, but that's why I use Firefox, and only permanently script permission a select few sites, Yahoo does not get permanent permissions. Not even Google.I have my updates set to happen every 16440 minutes because I know what I'm doing when browsing the internet.Even if you know what you are doing, how does that apply to the case then a site, which you browse every day, gets hacked and infected, invisibly installing some malicious code on your computer via a 0-day exploit in the OS, browser, or any of its helpers? You can be the biggest expert in the world and it wouldn't help you much here...
I expect the antivirus to be updated as much as possible when I'm using the computer, so it should of been updated already the previous night. It's the difference between changing your oil before the road trip to changing the oil while on the road trip. :oI don't want to cripple it, I want it to update when I tell it to update, and that's when I'm _NOT_ using the computer.Well, I understand what you are saying, but I'm afraid it doesn't make much sense for me - what's the point of having an updated antivirus when you're not using the computer?
The moments when you are using the computer, that's when you need to have it updated.
It's the difference between changing your oil before the road trip to changing the oil while on the road trip.
Let me emphasize again what is here irritating in general, not about Avast only - it is programmer's intentional malignant unwillingness, to let off hidden umbilical with their software, once it settles on other people machines.First off, there is nothing "malignant " in a security application receiving automatic updates. In fact is is very much to be desired. Only having manual updating of an anti-malware application is , to put it plainly, foolish.
You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.quote from Matthew 7:5
On the other hand when an av-solution does some web traffic to perform essential network services for the better protection of all users, all cry wolf here.Primarily one person is crying wolf. The rest of us know better. :)