Hi,
Currently running 4.8 in on-demand mode - I made sure avast self protection was off, then stopped and disabled the 2 services. I can right click in explorer or load up avast to do full/folder scans. It works well that way with no "always on background stuff".
Now i tried the new 5.1. I unticked the avast self protection mode, stopped and disabled the service, deleted the UI.exe that is added to the startup in the reg and rebooted. Ok, no avast stuff loaded, but when I tried right clicking, I got an error about needing the UI. So i run the UI and it obviously says im unprotected etc. But I can not start any type of scan, get some kind of endpoint error.
Now my question is, is there some way (hidden pages, registry hacks?) to make avast 5+ an on-demand scanner only?