Just a minor buggy issue with my current avast install. I have a HP Pavilion g6 laptop, running Windows 8 64-bit with a 1TB hard disk and 6GB RAM, and an Intel Core i5 processor.
For the past 2 months, the regular avast pop-ups have disappeared (i.e. the info & update pop-ups). I’d normally see / hear one of these at least once per day. I have not changed any avast settings, and when I look at the current status I see that the virus database is actually keeping up to date. The pop-ups settings are as they always have been, but for some reason they have just stopped.
I run a full scan each week with avast and MBAM, and no major bugs have been found recently.
I guess that its not really a big problem, unless the warning pop-ups are also affected since I have found these very useful in keeping me away from dangerous webpages and email attachments.
There is no Settings > Messages.
Please check before offering suggestions, guessing isn’t helpful.
@ MudPuddles
I know you said that you haven’t made any changes to the default avast settings:
But the one I’m thinking about here is enabling the avastUI, Settings > Silent/Gaming Mode.
Another being the avastUI, Settings > Updates - Update Options ‘Show notification box after automatic update.’
If you haven’t changed those - Try a repair of avast:
Control Panel, Programs & Features (not sure how you get there in win8), uninstall a program, select ‘avast! Anti-Virus,’ click the Uninstall/Change and select Repair, click next and follow.
Sorry that this is reviving an old topic, but I wanted to close out the thread in case anyone else experiences the problem and finds themselves on this page after searching the forums.
A repair / reinstall didn’t work. Instead, the issue seems to have been caused by a file which MBAM found and cleared out an infected file called, funnily enough, popupblocker.exe. I had previously run MBAM but it didn’t find anything. It was only after I updated the MBAM database that it found that this file was infected, and removed it. Afterwards, the avast pop-ups became visible again.
So, lesson learned, and mental note made: keep your anti-malware programme up to date, and use it, dummy…!
