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Title: Avast Ransomware Protection turning itself back on/causing crashes in games
Post by: REDACTED on October 15, 2017, 02:35:14 AM

My Avast Ransomware Protection causes crashes in games due to the various random files it continually decides to protect even when I remove them from the list.  As such, I turned off the protection.

However, as of today I noticed that every time I reboot, Ransomware Protection turns back on by itself.  Also, if I uncheck all file type kinds for it to protect, it still finds more files to protect on its own.  Is there any way to stop this permanently?

This behavior persisted after updating to the latest version of Avast Premier.

Title: Re: Avast Ransomware Protection turning itself back on/causing crashes in games
Post by: Asyn on October 15, 2017, 11:14:31 AM

Repair Avast:
1. Control Panel -> Add/Remove programs -> Avast
2. Click on 'Repair'.
3. Follow instructions.
4. Reboot.

Title: Re: Avast Ransomware Protection turning itself back on/causing crashes in games
Post by: bob3160 on October 15, 2017, 03:31:59 PM

If Repair doesn't fix the problem, try the following:
Clean Install of Avast:
https://goo.gl/4Ptzkf
If you need additional help with the Clean Install, watch this:
https://youtu.be/p-h3myRD51A

Title: Re: Avast Ransomware Protection turning itself back on/causing crashes in games
Post by: Eddy on October 15, 2017, 03:55:45 PM

When it crashes, does the game run in game mode or not ?