Avast or Firewall problem?

I just installed the newest Avast 4.8 Home edition.

I am quite used to getting questioned by my firewall Online Armor http://www.tallemu.com/free-firewall-protection-software.html after installing new software, but this time it is different. Now I am getting a message that says:


[b]A suspicious program wants to run The program avast set up wants to run. The program is located here: C: Program Files\Alwil Software\Afast4\Setup[/b]

This program is suspicious… Take extreme care.

[b]What does this mean ?

Block.[/b]

It would be unusual for a legitimate program to use this trick, unless it is an auto-update program or an installer.

The only options are Allow or Block.
There is no option to save my settings.


I am running Windows XP Pro limited
I installed Avast as the administrator.
I rebooted as the administrator.
I found this issue to be in both the admin and the limited identity.

I am also sending this information to Online Armor.
I will let you know what their response is.

Please let me know if you need more information.

Thanks for your help in this matter.

It appears that a) your firewall isn’t fully reporting the information or b) you omitted the file name.

The avast updates are done with avast.setup and is a legit file it is in the C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\Setup folder.

So it is an auto updater of sorts.

Allow this process or no updates for you ;D

This is almost certainly the HIPS component of OA, rather than a firewall (connection) alert.
HIPS programs do this sort of thing. It’s nothing to worry about, unless it warns you concerning a process that is truly malicious.
Security applications, by there nature, get into the OS and run in/from locations that could represent malicious behaviour, so, although in this case it is not malicious, it is appropriate for the HIPS to warn you.

I turned my computer on today, as I do every morning, and watched as this problem seemed to fix itself before my eyes.

At first, the same problem showed itself:

But this time it show the same message over, and over, and over…
Then something came on and said that something from Avast wanted to install from the internet.
I gave it permission.
Voila!
No more “Suspicious program wants to run” messages!

Amazing!

A self healing computer?! :o
Maybe a fix was sent? :slight_smile:
Or maybe it was what you wonderful people were trying to explain to me, but I just did not understand. :-[

Don’t care because the annoying message is gone! ;D

Thanks you VERY much for all your help.

No fix, just a vps update and your giving permission is what fixed the problem; so I guess that it has auto remember your decisions, so you will have to be careful in the future with what you block or allow.

Well there was no problem other than the firewall blocking the avast updates, as I mentioned in my first post.