Yes your personal problems do have to do with it, as you have said so yourself.
Advising someone to seek help and wishing him all the best is not rude at all.
We have told you many times that there is nothing wrong with avast on your system.
You can ask it hundreds of times more, but it will not change our answers.
Look man… I do have some problems… yes. But all I want is just a bit of confirmation… but you aren’t even willing to indulge me… I said that if this log could be looked over and examined and if it turns out to look normal… fine. I will go on my merry way and won’t have to worry anymore, it’s good for everyone, including me…
And you say… “it doesn’t matter how many times we tell you etc” I said I would be okay once it’s done, I don’t go against my word… so can some people just have a detailed look at it, please?
Are you sure about those file names? Drivers usually end with .sys
I see some files such as \program files\avast software\avast\setup such as
ngiodriver_x64_ais-8c5.vpx and
ngiodriver_x86_ais-8c5.vpx (I am running 32 bit XP Pro)
But no ng* components/driver are loaded in the system.
The behavior you see maybe a little odd (nothing unusual for avast TBH) but it is definitely not malicious.
In avast settings/troubleshooting/update - do you have update program set to manual? Automatic?
Data file used by avast
May contain virus definitions and software update information.
Used for keeping the software up-to-date with the latest protection signatures.
Automatic Update and Streaming Updates is also enabled.
And yeah, I have those exact same .vpx ngiodriver files in my setup folder. (but slightly different at the end… 8d6 instead of 8c5) These are the files that run every time my Avast Definitions update… as you see in the logs it constantly keeps creating randomly generated named services then immediately eliminating them… not sure why tbh.
Whether or not Avast! should be doing this is something I don’t know… because previously this never happened when Avast! updated… this is why I’ve been asking for other peoples opinions or whether it is happening to them too.
NON did say a lot of things, but never clarified whether or not he had the issue as well. Infact… no-one has mentioned whether or not they see the same things happening the entire thread has existed. I’ve just had people say that it isn’t suspicious behaviour.
See reply #29
Yep… you said that it doesn’t create new files every time, but just 2 newly randomly generated services that change every time… because of malware… but you never specified whether or not that means it’s a type of behaviour that only happens when malware is trying to stop the updater from updating the definitions…
Anyways… Eddy… do you have similar such things in your logs? Assuming you are running 11.2.2262 (which you may not be because you may be running the new beta.)
Also, you said this is due to NG, but according to my logs in the previous page, NGAssistedVirtualization is set to false… so these randomly generated services shouldn’t be creating… cause I thought it was an NG thing… according to some people.
This is just going to keep going round and round isn’t it? You think you’re right and I think I’m right… There is definitely something odd about this and it’s no coincidence in my opinion that around the same time this suspicious behaviour began my computer in general became a lot more sluggish on startup… particularly my svchost processes… they are delaying like crazy.
How about… if you think I’m talking a load of crap, that you just don’t post anything anymore? It’s fairly obvious you aren’t going to be helpful to me… infact you seem to enjoy attacking my person and making me feel even worse about myself.
You also seem to be picking out only specific things in my posts, that you can easily disregard… it seems you never read my full posts or even attempt to look at any information I post… such as my logs or the behaviour I describe.
I honestly have a feeling that there is something malicious going on… somewhere… those logs and my observations of the processes during bootup indicate to me that the first instup.exe process that normally finds updates is either crashing or being stopped by something… which is why NG has to intervene and creates another process of the updater with protection of it’s generated service keys…
If you think something malicious is going on than follow the advice outlined here: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0
Be sure to attach the requested logs. Do not copy and paste.