Antivirus program by AVAST Software
Questions tagged [avast]
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Adding a file to the scan exclusion list in Avast Antivirus
Using Avast Antivirus, is it possible to add a file to the scan exclusion list? I got a popup message saying that a "suspicious file" had been detected, and then I tried clicking "Add this file to the scan exclusion list", and it appeared that…
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How to remove Avast website ratings
How do I remove Avast website ratings from being all over the webpages and in firefox?
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Where is Avast 2016 deleted files log?
I installed Avast, hoping it was going to give less false positives.
It promptly concludes that half of my coding tools, custom programs, whatnot are "Virus-Gen" or "Malware-Gen" and other heuristics and nuke half of my system.
Of course, I want to…
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Configure Avast Free from command line
Is there a way to configure Avast Antivirus from command line?
What I want to do is add my application to the exception list, when it is being installed on my clients. Most clients don't know how to do this and add it to the virus chest. This causes…
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Add Program or Process Name to Avast Exclusions
In Avast, is it possible (and does it work) to exclude an executable by name, without having to specify the whole path? For example, adding just devenv.exe versus adding C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe and…
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Disable pre-run in Avast
Some apps avast pre-runs them once for a few seconds (probably to check their behavior or whatever in a sandbox) before really running them. How do I disable this pre-step?
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Approx. every hour, why does Avast pop up and "safely aborted connection on flashvd.net"?
On August 5 2021, my Avast started popping up the following approx. every hour that I use my Windows laptop. I don't recognize, and have never intentionally visited, flashvd.net.
The snag appears to be flashvd.net. If this is a malicious website,…
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