Hi. I am on an Asus vivo w/win10/64, and ever since Avast started showing up in the Avast firewall, I have had problems keeping my system safe. In the firewall, In the Avast Software subsection I have set to block all communications for three of the items: a) Avast Cleanup Service; b) Avast SecureLine VPN Service; c) Avast SecureLine VPN Update.
I have had to troubleshoot using tried and true common sense. I was continually finding , in the Microsoft Corporation subsection, the System being set to full open, or 'Allow All Connections. I had this set to 'Block All Connections. I do this routinely to any listed element in the firewall that is not certificate protected. The Avast product has always given me a heads up when it changes something. Not now. Now Avast overrides my settings. So, I fiddled and chose. The settings I have now have prevented the firewall settings from overriding my settings. I am doing a system test, and will sign off, log out, restart, and see what happens.
Okay, I have restarted my system, and am here again. Well, Avast Cleanup Premium just wanted to do a scan, so I allowed it. It fixed some errors, and is asking me to restart. So, I will. Signing off.
My reply will be in next post. Restarting.
Okay, here goes. After my tweaking the system, and Avast coming back at me with it’s own suggestions, and Avast cleanup Premium doing a system scan, with fixes, here is the state of my firewall: In sub heading ‘Microsoft Corporation’ System was reset to the middle setting (Internet Out) with toggle ‘Auto-Decide’ set. I changed the toggle to ‘Block’ for any other communications. All of the other Non-Certificate protected choices in this sub-heading remained unchanged at ‘Block All Communications’. I can live with this, if Avast can protect my system with the system setting the way it is. There seems to be some AI built in here. It learns, and I learn.
In the ‘Avast Software’ sub-heading, the firewall seems to have settled upon: a) Avast Cleanup Service set at 'Block All Communications; b) Avast SecureLine VPN Update set at ‘Block All Communications’; Avast Overseer set at ‘Internet Out’ and toggled to block all other communications; d) and all other selections in the ‘Avast Software’ sub-heading at ‘Internet Out’, with toggle at ‘Auto-Decide’.
Okay, I can live with this. What was rubbing me the wrong way was the firewall setting ‘System’ to 5 bars ‘All Connections’. It was kind of like Avast Firewall pinging out into the ether: “Come on in folks, the water is real nice here!!!”. I hope you get my drift. I have always let Avast’s products do the settings, with a small amount of oversight on my part. I do not think I can be so trusting anymore. Anyway, if one of you ‘UberEvangelists’ can forward this to your development folks, I would appreciate it. Still am a great Avast enthusiast here.
Respectfully,
B. Anthony A. K.
PS: If things go south again, I’ll be back.