Very often? Very often?
Sometimes, in some troubles, I feel completely without feedback. At least, the feedback we think we deserve it. I mean, sometimes, it’s disappointing.
I don’t know Tech, I feel some anger there ;D … I mean I don’t know if the frequency of Avast feedback has always been like it is today. I registered here two years ago but only started to post regularly in October last year, so I don’t know if, beta testing periods excluded, there ever was more feedback from the devs here? that’s just a question, I don’t feel like browsing the old threads to find out, and you’ve been here for a while, so you can probably tell, was it ever different?
I’m not comparing the old times with the actual ones.
Just that I think the old guys, the ones who take a lot of time to help here, should be a little more feedback.
The existence of the Evangelist forum is not being enough imho.
I am on windows 7 / 32 have made several system restores without any problem. Usually before install any software or drivers I create a restore point. If I dont like the software or have any problem uninstall it and then make a system restore to the created point to clear of all traces of the unwanted software. As far I can remember I did not make a system restore to a previous point created by the system after avast 5.
So, you really did not test it with avast 5… :
I was saying that all restores I made after creating a restore point was done with avast5. So that ones was sucesseful. If restore to a previous point done by the system I think I didnt done yet as far as I remenber
I’ve tested again with self-defense module off. It worked.
Maybe an indication that users of avast should disable it before using System Restore?
Any confirmation of that Vlk?
Bump.
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Will this be addressed in the today/tomorrow update?
you know about a program update for today or tomorrow?
Philosophical approach: As every day is today, it should be out today… ;D
It seems to be solved… but I’m not sure as I could only test when avast updates/upgrades were not involved, i.e., the avast installation does not change before and after the restore.
I didn’t check. You mean at least when no upgrade occurred in the meantime, you can restore without having the self-defense module deactivated? I hope so…because there’s still no way to deactivate it in safe mode (if booting in normal mode is impossible for any reason) because:
1 if a password was set on the settings, it’s rejected anyway in safe mode
2 if there’s no password, you can access the settings panel in safe mode but your changes won’t be taken into account
3 the reason: avast runs in safe mode without any service, and the settings depend on these services.
The big change now is that you can scan in safe mode, as manual scans can now be done without avastsvc.exe. The other thing is for the rest, all that can’t run, it’s just normal as for the services to run in safe mode it would imply that Windows would load Avast drivers in safe mode, which will never happen, that’s what safe mode is for.
Yes, it works.
No, you can tweak that to load drivers at Safe Mode. Just it will be a customized Safe Mode and not the original one. But it’s possible.
So, what I get from this thread is that I did the right thing in immediately disabling self defense after I installed Avast. This sort of problem is why layered defense is important. On XP, I have ProcessGuard to protect Avast processes. I don’t need Avast to protect itself. On Vista, I installed Online Armor ++ just for the classic HIPS so it will protect Avast. I don’t want Avast self protection (or Avira’s when I was beta testing Avira 10) partly because I need to be able to kill any misbehaving process in Task Manager so I don’t want Avast (or Avira) suddenly going nuts and using 100% CPU and I can’t kill the process. So there is that reason besides this system restore problem for not using self defense but instead letting another program protect Avast.
Why do you need to do so? Or why would you like to do it so?