How to disable avast

[tibra]

Hi,

haven't found that question answered on this forum, so here goes

I had installed the v.4 free edition. Intention was to use it for scanning periodically but NOT running any background guards permanently.

I didn't find a way to keep the program doing this, had to uninstall in order to get rid of the resident modules & processes running and staying in memory all the time.

Is there a way to have the program installed for just doing a scan now and then without all the background processes?

Thanks
tibra

[Lisandro]

avast is not a good second, non-resident antivirus. You will mess your installation.
You could use BitDefender Free, F-Prot for DOS, ClamWin as non-resident antivirus.
AVG and Antivir have issues in this non-resident situation too.

[tibra]

>avast is not a good second, non-resident antivirus<

I knew this already, thus my question. Your answer translates to NO, Avast cannot be disabled and kept, it must be uninstalled to get rid of it's resident modules. Like also Antivir and possibly others if not most antivir progs, as it appears.

Regrettable.

Thanks anyway

tibra

[Lisandro]

I knew this already, thus my question. Your answer translates to NO, Avast cannot be disabled and kept, it must be uninstalled to get rid of it's resident modules. Like also Antivir and possibly others if not most antivir progs, as it appears.

You can try to set all services to Disable or manual mode and avast won't load...
But, could be conflicts at driver level (legacy drivers on Windows Registry keys if you know what I'm trying to tell...).

[RejZoR]

Yeah, you can do that but you have to disable services and startup entries manually.

[Lisandro]

Yeah, you can do that but you have to disable services and startup entries manually.

Because of this, I've posted this:

avast is not a good second, non-resident antivirus.