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fprince

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prevent avast from modifying config.nt
« on: December 09, 2004, 05:01:58 PM »
Hello everyone,

A newbie signing up...

My appologies if this has alredy been asked (couldn't find it though):
Is there a way to prevent Avast from modifying the CONFIG.NT file and adding the device=... line to cuase you know what?
I did put "rem" in the file manually and the turned off scanning for DOS apps in Avast, but after a while (I assume after some update), the line was clean (without REM) again. How can I turn it off?

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Re:prevent avast from modifying config.nt
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2004, 05:11:33 PM »
Why do you want to turn it off? It will only compromise the security of your system.

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Re:prevent avast from modifying config.nt
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2004, 05:15:14 PM »
I'm aware of that, but with the line there I cannot run any DOS apps, which are quite essential for my business (not that I'm happy with it, but I have no choice)
« Last Edit: December 09, 2004, 05:16:23 PM by fprince »

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Re:prevent avast from modifying config.nt
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2004, 05:44:54 PM »
There was a problem with DOS (16bit applications) with earlier versions of Avast. But 4.5.549 should work fine. Do you have the latest build?

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Re:prevent avast from modifying config.nt
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2004, 11:53:55 AM »
I'm aware of that, but with the line there I cannot run any DOS apps, which are quite essential for my business (not that I'm happy with it, but I have no choice)

Prince, that was my 'problem' for more than one year ago and so I joined avast  8)

Can you post the contents of these Windows Registry keys in your system?

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\VirtualDeviceDrivers\\VDD
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\VirtualDeviceDrivers\\VDD
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\VirtualDeviceDrivers\\VDD
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet003\Control\VirtualDeviceDrivers\\VDD
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet004\Control\VirtualDeviceDrivers\\VDD

I think we can workaround this withou loosing protection...  ;)
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