Avast Premium Security 24.2 breaks network shares

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@chris.. post:19

@bob3160 post:12

@chris.. post:11

the support tool still won’t work even after rebooting, opening as admin … I left it running for 1 hour but still nothing

I’m sorry about the network sharing problem, but we’ll have to wait a little longer.

@Chris,
What is your operating system? What version?

As I said W7 SP1
however, my 2 other devices on W10 22H2 also block access to the network.
As for the slow start-up scans, it’s there too, even if it seems faster (scan starts after 1 minute).

In addition to the problem of sharing on the local network, there is also this scanning problem that starts after 1 minute. :-
How many Bugs are there in this version 24.2. :-\

[chris...]

@Dinobot2 post:20

@chris.. post:17

@Dinobot2 post:13

@chris.. post:10

I also noticed - still with this version - that the various scans were slow to start (blocked at 0% for 2 or 3 minutes).

The smartscan, for example, performs the 1st scan (obsolete apps) quickly but blocks at 33% when the virus scan is supposed to start.

When you ran the Smart scan did it eventually finish with the slow start? Or did it stay at 33% and never finish, leading you to cancel it?

Yes, as I said above, the analyses are launched after 2 or 3 minutes, including the smartscan after 33%.

W7 SP1 Pro

edit:
I’d like to add, because it may be linked to the sharing problem on the local network, that since the update I’ve also had several notifications of new devices detected on the local (private) network, including my box.

Sorry, yes to which question? It does finish on its own?

yes, it ends on its own

[AndrewMAS]

@Kalman post:3

Not interested, maybe Avast should do a better job testing the new releases first!
Every computer that has the update and is on a network has been broken by Avast…
Not talking about just my network…

I agree with you and you mimicked my sentiment as I e-mailed them with this exacting tone, at first I thought that my e-mail had been published. You are not alone, I was just as angry when I realized it was the antivirus software causing my networking issues. Not only that but the network and internet traffic has slowed considerably.

Wanted to thank you for sharing what setting needed to be disabled in order for things to work properly again, and wanted to know you weren’t the only one who had this kind of reaction. Things should be tested before released, this was ridiculous.

[chris...]

@AndrewMAS or Kalman

The only way to fix the problem is to turn off "Enable Samba Protection"

Can you be more specific about the solution?

Where did you uncheck the Samba protection?

Did you reboot your system afterwards?

As far as I’m concerned, I’ve tried on my 3 networked devices (W7, W10, W10) to uncheck “Enable Samba Protection” in “remote access shield” settings but I cannot find the shared folders/files even though I ping the devices correctly.

edit:
I’ve just seen that by accepting “allow sharing of incoming files and printers via the SMB protocol” for public networks … the sharing works again.

But that’s strange because it would mean that my network is considered to be public when it isn’t.

[chris...]

@Jakub Dubovic post:15

Hello, just an update about the original issue - I believe we have found the culprit. It should be patched as soon as the fix is properly tested.

Thanks for the effort and assistance, everyone!

Now on to the rest of the issues.

Sharing on my local network works again.

Thank you for taking care of this

[jlemming]

When are we going to have a fix for broken network shares?

It’s not working, what is 240309-4 VPS ?reu

[chris...]

I’ve just said it’s working again with 240309-4 VPS

Doesn’t it work for you?

[Bebbub]

@Kalman post:1

The only way to fix the problem is to turn off “Enable Samba Protection”

It took me a while to find what was wrong as 20+ PCs in my network suddenly stopped sharing folders… I’ve found relatively quickly that the Remote Acces Shield was to blame, started unchecking one by one the checkboxes and obviously when I unchecked Samba Protection my network started working as it should.

My only regret is that this bug give a lot of satisfaction to those who worship Windows Defender…