Hello. First post here. If I somehow commit a breach of etiquette, or if my non-native English is hard to understand, feel free to correct me.
I have been noticing some oddities that hopefully aren't malware-related.
Ever since the latest program update (to 7.0.1466) there have been more entries in the selfdef log than usual. Here are a couple of excerpts from today's log:
23-08-2012 07:53:29 Write access to registry key \REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Services\aswFsBlk denied. [C:\Windows\System32\services.exe]
23-08-2012 20:11:18 Write access to file \Device\HarddiskVolume1\Program Files\AVAST Software\Avast\Setup denied. [C:\Windows\System32\SearchIndexer.exe]
23-08-2012 20:11:18 Write access to file \Device\HarddiskVolume1\Program Files\AVAST Software\Avast\defs\12082300_stream denied. [C:\Windows\System32\SearchIndexer.exe]
23-08-2012 20:44:39 Write access to file \Device\HarddiskVolume1\ProgramData\AVAST Software\Avast denied. [C:\Windows\System32\SearchIndexer.exe]
There are perhaps a hundred more just from today. The searchindexer.exe attempts of access are new, and started occurring yesterday at about the time I think I updated Avast. As far as I can see, services.exe has attempted access ever since the log file was created after a fresh Windows/Avast etc. install. So, is this something to be worried about or not?
Also, since the last update the behaviour shield has gone virtually inactive. Usually it scanned the same 5-6 files everytime i booted the computer, now I can have hour-long sessions without any activity. I don't think this is related, I just wanted to mention it.
Hope you guys can allay my fears, and perhaps come up with some explanations.