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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: Gilbert58 on December 12, 2021, 04:25:09 AM

Title: Remote Access Shield Samba Protection blocking network PC
Post by: Gilbert58 on December 12, 2021, 04:25:09 AM

I've had to disable "Samba protection" and "Block brute-force attacks" to prevent Avast Premium Security from continuously blocking access to shared folders on my PC within my home office network. I have a laptop which I use for some smaller processing tasks but it needs to read data from and write data to the drives on the main PC to do this. I am connecting as an authenticated user on the main PC (ie, I have set up a user account for the laptop on the main PC) but it still thinks it's a brute force attack for some stupid reason.

How am I supposed to deal with this? It was all working OK before the latest update. I am on Windows 10 and the PCs are on a wired ethernet. Both are running Avast Premium Security, but not for much longer if this keeps happening.

Title: Re: Remote Access Shield Samba Protection blocking network PC
Post by: Asyn on December 12, 2021, 10:52:15 AM

- Which version/build of Avast Premium..?
- OS..? (32/64 Bit..? - which SP/Build..?)
- Other security related software installed..?

Title: Re: Remote Access Shield Samba Protection blocking network PC
Post by: Gilbert58 on December 13, 2021, 02:17:28 AM

Running Avast Premium Security 21.10.2498 (build 21.10.6772.706)
Edition   Windows 10 Home 64-bit
Version   21H1
OS build   19043.1348
Experience   Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.3920.0
No other security or av software installed

Title: Re: Remote Access Shield Samba Protection blocking network PC
Post by: Asyn on December 13, 2021, 10:16:21 AM

Repair Avast:
1. Avast GUI -> Settings -> Troubleshooting
2. Click on 'REPAIR APP'.
3. Follow instructions.
4. Reboot.