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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: Dr Fager on December 21, 2003, 04:34:22 PM

Title: Disabling Avast
Post by: Dr Fager on December 21, 2003, 04:34:22 PM

How can you disable avast so that it only runs when i want it to? Right now it fires up when i boot up, and for some reason it slows down my pc until i manually diasable it in my toolbar.

The only thing id like to use it for is weekly scans which i want to do manually.

Thanks in advance

Title: Re:Disabling Avast
Post by: Lisandro on December 21, 2003, 06:02:48 PM

You seem to have another antivirus active (resident) in your machine, don't you? Which one? Maybe you will have trouble with more than one residente av.

If you just want to scan you system weekly based, desinstall all providers except the Standard Shield (Control Panel > avast! antivirus > Add/Remove > Change (choose providers).

After this, right click the icon and choose the On-line protection and disable the Standard Shield. When the program asks you about 'persisting' the option, answer 'YES'.

Anyway, I do not suggest any of these procedures. How much RAM do you have? Which is your OS? Disabling the av application is not wellcoming...  :-\

Title: Re: Disabling Avast
Post by: ramsi51 on June 21, 2020, 01:51:12 PM

How do I temporarily disable Avast on my Mac? I've opened the Avast app and the shields tab, but can't find any "disable" button.

Title: Re: Disabling Avast
Post by: Asyn on June 21, 2020, 02:13:20 PM

Quote from: ramsi51 on June 21, 2020, 01:51:12 PM

How do I temporarily disable Avast on my Mac? I've opened the Avast app and the shields tab, but can't find any "disable" button.

-> https://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=5.0