[RESOLVED] Behavior Shield is Gone? :O

[GloobyGoob]

I just checked the realtime sheilds tab and I'm missing the behavior shield. I had it installed and I never changed any components... so this is weird. And the status bar is set to monitor that but the summary page still says Secured. I tried repairing avast and rebooting but it's stiill not there. I'm most likely just to uninstall and do a clean reinstall of avast but I want to know why it just "dissappears" like that. Thanks

[DavidR]

Well if the status bar is set to monitor it the only way it wouldn't notify is if you at some point removed it.

Try the same area as a repair of avast. Add Remove programs, select 'avast! Anti-Virus,' click the Change/Remove button and scroll down to Change. From this window ensure that the Behaviour Shield option is checked, OK your way out and reboot. Much quicker than uninstalling and reinstalling.

[GloobyGoob]

Thanks DavidR, that did the trick. I am still puzzled as to why it would dissappear/uninstall itself though.

[DavidR]

It shouldn't have disappeared on its own, there was some time ago where a lot of people were removing the behaviour shield as it was slowing their system (5.0.594 had behaviour shield improvements I believe). So I don't know if you were in this group who might have removed it and forgot.

[SafeSurf]

Maybe Avast thought you were a good boy and thought you didn't need it.   

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