Avast P2P Shield Not Working!

Avast 5 Pro P2P Shield Dont Work :frowning:
Limewire - I Accident Downloaded A F___ING Camouflage Virus! >:( I Scaned It And It Found A Trojan,
Utorrent - I Did A Test And Downloaded A Keygen And Didn’t Get A Alert!. I Scaned It And It Found A Trojan,

Anyway To Fix?

Utorrent is unchecked by default in the P2P settings. So have you enabled Avast! to scan Utorrent, for starters? (although from what I recall, it was unchecked by default for a reason, scanning was slowwwww)

Also, do you have the P2P shield set up to scan whole files, Heuristics slider all the way up, scan for PuPs on?
Might be a good idea to try that, moreso with the P2P shield than any other.

Either way, your statement of “Avast! P2P shield dont work” should finish with “on my system”. It works fine for me, 3 times over a 5 month period it has protected my PC from P2P nastiness.

Im a newbie
I’m New To This Forum ::slight_smile:
I’m Sorry
It’s Prob Is That It Never Catches It.
Only The Scanner/File System Shield!

Thats ok, everyone is new at sometime, I was newbie a short few months ago. Just avoid, as a rule, making “blanket statements” like “Avast! doesnt work with Win7” or as you said, “Avast! P2P shield dont work”, etc.

These posts show up not just here, but on big name search engines. If another person has a similar problem as you, they search, and one of the first results they see is your post. So if any program, from firewall to browser all the way down to the O.S., causes a problem with the P2P shield, they will read your post and latch onto the idea that your single statement presents, that a component of Avast! is broken.

Then soon, you have 2-3 people who think a pandemic has struck their A.V., that there are 100’s or 1000’s with the same problem, which is of course false.

So the correction was only a little for you, more to set the public record straight.

But as for your problem, does the traffic history or report file from the Avast! UI show any activity at all, as in, Is the module even running? (Open Avast!>>Realtime shields>>P2P shield>>2 buttons at bottom of window )