Avast runs keytool.exe of all installed jre's/jdk's, can this be disabled?

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I do have a lot of different jre's/jdk's installed on my windows 7 computer.

At startup of windows 7 avast decides to run "keytool.exe" of every installed jre/jdk.

This does take up a lot of time and keeps my harddisk busy.

Is it possible to disable this feature?

[Pondus]

keytool.exe is not a avast file / process > http://www.processlibrary.com/en/directory/files/keytool/28321/


If you mean avast is scanning this because of activity from that file then avast is doing what it should

If you dont want avast to scan it > https://www.avast.com/faq.php?article=AVKB168#artTitle

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Cheers for the reply.

AvastSvc.exe is starting keytool.exe at windows startup, i can see this with Process Explorer. Keytool.exe (from different java versions) becomes a child of the AvastSvc.exe node in the Process Explorer tree, which means avast is starting keytool.

I suspect/wild guess that it has something todo with ssl certificates (root?) avast uses.

Can't say much more about it. 

[Eddy]

avast is scanning the file, not starting it (to my knowledge).

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I restarted my computer to be sure. Here is a actual screenshot of avast starting at least 3 keytools:

http://imgur.com/a/AyAQg

It is doing something with certificate 'avast ... scanner root', couldn't read the exact command cause a lot of keytool.exe processes even slow down painting.

[davexnet]

saw this, but it doesn't really help
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=182581.0

This is something one of the avast developers should be able to answer in seconds

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saw this, but it doesn't really help
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=182581.0

This is something one of the avast developers should be able to answer in seconds

Cheers for the reply.
It indeed seems that this person also has found out that avast starts keytool.exe . Good to know i'm not the only one.
But i'm still looking for an answer, hoping for the devs to take a peek at this topic.

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I do have a lot of different jre's/jdk's installed on my windows 7 computer.

At startup of windows 7 avast decides to run "keytool.exe" of every installed jre/jdk.

This does take up a lot of time and keeps my harddisk busy.

I have exactly the same symptoms – very annoyingly prolonging startup! – although on a different version of Windows.

Over 2 years have passed from the original posting. Still no solutions to this issue?

[bob3160]

I do have a lot of different jre's/jdk's installed on my windows 7 computer.

At startup of windows 7 avast decides to run "keytool.exe" of every installed jre/jdk.

This does take up a lot of time and keeps my harddisk busy.

I have exactly the same symptoms – very annoyingly prolonging startup! – although on a different version of Windows.

Over 2 years have passed from the original posting. Still no solutions to this issue?

Never a good idea to post in an old topic. If you have a problem post your own new topic with full details.