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Avast says unprotected then starts it back but cancels the scan.
« on: December 18, 2015, 12:55:06 AM »
For the past two days, Avast will suddenly say "You are un protected" and then either turn itself back on, or will do it when I click it. However every time it does this it stops my full system scan before it can scan full system and I fear this will cause it to not catch a virus. How to fix this? Also two of the five times this has happened a thing came up saying something wanted to turn avast off if I agreed to let it (it had an automatic timer that avast would say no for me thankfully.)

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Re: Avast says unprotected then starts it back but cancels the scan.
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2015, 01:13:44 AM »
You could try a 'Repair' of your Avast Installation: https://www.avast.com/faq.php?article=AVKB204

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Re: Avast says unprotected then starts it back but cancels the scan.
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2015, 01:23:27 AM »
Hopefully this tip works! Thank you either way!

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Re: Avast says unprotected then starts it back but cancels the scan.
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2015, 01:39:36 AM »
You're welcome

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Re: Avast says unprotected then starts it back but cancels the scan.
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2015, 02:24:01 AM »
Sadly the problem seems to be continuing, the part where it asks for a program to turn off avast seems to have stopped, but it is still suddenly going unprotected and stopping the full system and the quick scans.

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Re: Avast says unprotected then starts it back but cancels the scan.
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2015, 08:50:04 AM »
Attach your basic diagnostic logs. (MBAM, FRST and aswMBR)
Instructions: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0
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Re: Avast says unprotected then starts it back but cancels the scan.
« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2015, 05:13:53 PM »
Attach your basic diagnostic logs. (MBAM, FRST and aswMBR)
Instructions: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0

Yes the starting and stopping of scans is worry-some and having the OS checked out for malware as Asyn has directed is definitely the way to go now :)

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Re: Avast says unprotected then starts it back but cancels the scan.
« Reply #7 on: December 18, 2015, 05:35:24 PM »
Okay, I'll try to work these things out and post the three results as soon as possible.

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Re: Avast says unprotected then starts it back but cancels the scan.
« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2015, 11:18:51 PM »
Okay finished all three scans and attached all four files. The good news is Malwarebytes didn't find any infected files so that's something. I don't know how to read other two scans though. I hope this info will help this problem get figured out!

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Re: Avast says unprotected then starts it back but cancels the scan.
« Reply #9 on: December 18, 2015, 11:20:46 PM »
You still have Norton 360 installed and running

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S3 SRTSP; C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\NISx64\1406000.01B\SRTSP64.SYS [796760 2013-05-16] (Symantec Corporation)
R3 SRTSPX; C:\Windows\system32\drivers\NISx64\1406000.01B\SRTSPX64.SYS [36952 2013-03-04] (Symantec Corporation)
R3 SymDS; C:\Windows\system32\drivers\NISx64\1406000.01B\SYMDS64.SYS [493656 2013-05-21] (Symantec Corporation)
R3 SymEFA; C:\Windows\system32\drivers\NISx64\1406000.01B\SYMEFA64.SYS [1139800 2013-05-23] (Symantec Corporation)
S4 SymELAM; C:\Windows\system32\drivers\NISx64\1406000.01B\SymELAM.sys [23448 2012-06-20] (Symantec Corporation)
R3 SymEvent; C:\Windows\system32\Drivers\SYMEVENT64x86.SYS [177312 2013-09-09] (Symantec Corporation)
R3 SymIRON; C:\Windows\system32\drivers\NISx64\1406000.01B\Ironx64.SYS [224416 2013-03-04] (Symantec Corporation)
R3 SymNetS; C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\NISx64\1406000.01B\SYMNETS.SYS [433752 2013-04-24] (Symantec Corporation)
https://support.norton.com/sp/en/uk/home/current/solutions/kb20080710133834EN_EndUserProfile_en_us

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Re: Avast says unprotected then starts it back but cancels the scan.
« Reply #10 on: December 18, 2015, 11:39:37 PM »
Okay, will uninstall that and see if that helps, but that's been automatically on this computer since I got it out of box. Never had trouble before. Hoping that is the reason though!

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Re: Avast says unprotected then starts it back but cancels the scan.
« Reply #11 on: December 19, 2015, 02:50:00 AM »
The problem is still persisting. While getting rid of Norton seems to have made the program work LONGER and doing it at 35% instead of somewhere between 0% and 20% it's still doing it.

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Re: Avast says unprotected then starts it back but cancels the scan.
« Reply #12 on: December 19, 2015, 03:02:24 AM »
Hi kaylachan1990 :)

Perform a fresh scan with Farbar Recovery Scan Tool and attach the FRST.txt file to your next reply.
essexboy will help you further.

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Re: Avast says unprotected then starts it back but cancels the scan.
« Reply #13 on: December 19, 2015, 03:40:00 AM »
Alright, finished the rescan!

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Re: Avast says unprotected then starts it back but cancels the scan.
« Reply #14 on: December 19, 2015, 03:45:52 AM »
I have send essexboy a pm to remind him.

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