The problem is back. I just had the main GUI popup again. This time after exactly 8 hours, to the second.
The GUI at startup is still happening after the v20.6 update - but my experience is that it is happening less often.
If you restart the computer the GUI will not normally appear again - but I have seen it twice in the same day if the startups are far enough apart (e.g. morning and evening) - so there seems to be a timer involved.
I am also still seeing an occasional Avast GUI opening while working on the computer - but again less often than before the v20.6 update. This can be very annoying as it steals focus from the application you are working in - and you end up typing into a void until you click back into your working window. Seeing as Avast has the “Do Not Disturb” feature for full screen apps it is super annoying that it is exhibiting this behaviour - as the developers obviously understand how disruptive this can be.
Today it happened right at boot. Yesterday after 8 hours on the dot. Weird. And annoying.
It happens to me every single day now. 11 hours in. 12 hours in. But always exactly on whole hours since boot. It is really starting to annoy the hell out of me because it steals focus from whatever I’m doing.
It seems to pop open random now without reason. Sometimes at startup. but most it now happens when i do things at the pc.
And the bad thing is, i told avast to run in silent mode and it still happens. Silent mode would be nice to be default. Never leave silent mode here.
Every single day. This really needs to get fixed asap.
I have just set this notification in my WiFi Inspector settings, so lets see if that generates this AvastUI and WiFi Inspector scan popup.
Also see this topic https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=237118.0 I don’t know if it is directly related or not
As you can see in that post, I have those items checked and don’t get a popup daily of either
the Wifi inspector or the GUI.
https://d1ka0itfguscri.cloudfront.net/Lh/2020/08/13/11/57/cYjIXPGaVK/preview.jpg
So far I haven’t seen anything either, but it is still early days and I also haven’t done a system restart after that either.
I don’t even have WiFi inspector installed (in fact I have WiFi disabled in the house) and I get a popup every day that steals focus. Sometimes as much as 14 hours after booting. But always at exactly whole hours of uptime.
Update to the latest version (20.6.2420): https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=236703.0
me too, with these settings checked, the UI did not open any more since the upgrade to version 20.6, and I’ve rebooted my computer several times .
However, what do we know about the periodicity/trigger of “Rescan home networks automaticaly”?
A record ,new network , every hour, every day, every week,…?
Because in “show latest results” of wifi-inspector, I have my last scan on July 22nd.
I don’t know if you have tried this (or other options, repair, clean reinstall) or not, Save your existing settings and then restore the default settings in the UI, General > Troubleshooting section. If it makes no difference after a restart, then you can restore the settings that you saved.