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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: areicb on January 30, 2010, 07:49:58 AM
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I first want to say great changes in the UI. Avast has always been top notch, but the UI kept me away. The new interface is a complete 360 and is probably the best around. I have 2 problems I seem unable to fix. I am using a trial of Internet Security to test before buying.
Problem 1. On a plugged in PC, there is a popup every time I start, saying it found the network connection. Pretty annoying, can I time it out or just get rid of it?
Problem 2. Firewall - I use GOM media player, everytime I play a video I get a fireall prompt (set to "ask") every time I open a video. The process is the same each time and I always select "remember". I do notice there is no digital signature. I have manually set full access to both GOM components and it still asks every time I open a file with GOM. My network is set to work and the firwall is set to "ask" every time a program tries to make access. Every other program seems to follow the rule I make for it except this, it just keeps asking?
Thanks all in advance
Win7 Pro x64
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Have you already updated to avast 5.0.396 ? you didnt tell which version is installed
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I first want to say great changes in the UI. Avast has always been top notch, but the UI kept me away. The new interface is a complete 360 and is probably the best around. I have 2 problems I seem unable to fix. I am using a trial of Internet Security to test before buying.
Problem 1. On a plugged in PC, there is a popup every time I start, saying it found the network connection. Pretty annoying, can I time it out or just get rid of it?
Problem 2. Firewall - I use GOM media player, everytime I play a video I get a fireall prompt (set to "ask") every time I open a video. The process is the same each time and I always select "remember". I do notice there is no digital signature. I have manually set full access to both GOM components and it still asks every time I open a file with GOM. My network is set to work and the firwall is set to "ask" every time a program tries to make access. Every other program seems to follow the rule I make for it except this, it just keeps asking?
Thanks all in advance
Win7 Pro x64
Hi,
yeah the might be soon an option to change this behavior, and avoid a pop up each time to log in to Windows. Avast prefers to keep this option for mobile devices changing networks frequently. Next program update should allow to choose (pop up/ or not). What I'm worried about is if you turn that off on a desktop computer, you might no be alerted if your system connects automatically to another network in the neighborhood.
for your second issue I don't know, all rules seem to be remembered here.
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Thanks Logos. my network is identified by the adapter and the ISP both from what I can tell. You would think there would be a "remember THIS connection" option. it is bothersome to have to approve a static connection every time
These are the only 2 options that have me on the fence about purchasing this
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well you don't have to approve anything you're just being notified again and again. Which will soon mean, with an option on this, notified all the time or nothing...yeah...not sure I agree with that either.
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I have the exact same OS and the first problem bugs me a lot as well.
It'd be great if it gets fixed soon, because it's quite annoying.
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I have the exact same OS and the first problem bugs me a lot as well.
It'd be great if it gets fixed soon, because it's quite annoying.
well you don't have to reboot your system every minute ;)