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Offline Rundvleeskroket

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I can't disable Rootkit detection
« on: July 23, 2019, 04:50:21 PM »
Hi.

I want to disable the rootkit detection in the Core Shield. To test something. But it won't let me. When I uncheck the box Avast immediately returns me to the main status screen and the setting hasn't been changed.

I can uncheck the nested exploit detection box, but not the main "Enable Rootkit detection" box. It won't work.

The thing I'm trying to test is a weird behavior of my PC where when I start a program it randomly sometimes sits there for about 10 seconds doing nothing. Waiting. No notable CPU activity, no disk activity, no network activity. Seemingly. So I want to test if this is caused by some component of Avast Free.

But as it is I can't seem to even test this.

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Re: I can't disable Rootkit detection
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2019, 06:33:34 AM »
I want to disable the rootkit detection in the Core Shield. To test something. But it won't let me. When I uncheck the box Avast immediately returns me to the main status screen and the setting hasn't been changed.

I can uncheck the nested exploit detection box, but not the main "Enable Rootkit detection" box. It won't work.
Confirmed, same here.
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Re: I can't disable Rootkit detection
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2019, 08:53:41 AM »
Note, the devs are working on a fix...
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Re: I can't disable Rootkit detection
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2019, 09:30:37 AM »
Update, is has been fixed in UI V1.0.394 (released a few minutes ago).
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Re: I can't disable Rootkit detection
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2019, 10:46:29 AM »
Update, is has been fixed in UI V1.0.394 (released a few minutes ago).

How was this released, as a manual program update reports the program is up to date, but the UI is still 1.0.382.  Are you talking about the current beta or the regular program version ?
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Re: I can't disable Rootkit detection
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2019, 11:07:28 AM »
Hi Dave, the UI has its own/separate update channel. It might take a while to propagate to all servers.
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Re: I can't disable Rootkit detection
« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2019, 12:37:31 PM »
Hi. I just checked for updates manually. UI is version 1.0.390. Still has the bug. I'll check later today.

Thanks for the fast response.

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Re: I can't disable Rootkit detection
« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2019, 12:54:38 PM »
You're welcome.
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Re: I can't disable Rootkit detection
« Reply #8 on: July 24, 2019, 04:45:01 PM »
Hi Dave, the UI has its own/separate update channel. It might take a while to propagate to all servers.

Thanks, still no joy as yet though.
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Re: I can't disable Rootkit detection
« Reply #9 on: July 24, 2019, 07:48:55 PM »
Still no new version available.

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Re: I can't disable Rootkit detection
« Reply #10 on: July 24, 2019, 09:34:10 PM »
Still no new version available.

Snap still no change.
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Re: I can't disable Rootkit detection
« Reply #11 on: July 25, 2019, 05:49:51 AM »
Still no new version available.
Snap still no change.
Hi guys, same here, I'll report it...
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Re: I can't disable Rootkit detection
« Reply #12 on: July 25, 2019, 10:45:55 AM »
I'm still stuck on UI 1.0.387, even after manual update attempts that came to nothing.

Update: Just did a Restart (boot) and now have UI 1.0.390, but not 394 with the fix yet.
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Re: I can't disable Rootkit detection
« Reply #13 on: July 25, 2019, 11:41:56 AM »
Same here. 390.

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Re: I can't disable Rootkit detection
« Reply #14 on: July 25, 2019, 08:07:31 PM »
Hi guys, I got updated to UI V1.0.394 today.
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