I like to monitor which software and processes use my bandwidth, but since I installed Avast this isn’t possible anymore (to the best of my knowledge), because almost all internet traffic gets re-routed through the avastsvc.exe process. I can no longer see the bandwidth usage of individual processes. I;ve tried going into expert settings under Web Shield and disabling the options there, but everything still gets redirected. The only way is to stop the Web Shield, but this isn’t safe no?
Disabling WebShield is not the best possible option here. Care to expand on why such monitoring is needed and thought to be prudent?
Do you have dial-up for a connection?
avastsvc.exe is an important part of the real-time protection process. Disabling that would cripple Avast! to possibly the level of an on-demand a/v scanner while you are on the net.
Just wondering why you would want to do anything approaching that.
I’m not actually disabling avastsvc.exe, just disabling the web shield option. I know it’s still not safe which is why I’m asking if there are alternatives.
The reason I need monitor the bandwidth is because my brothers and sisters constantly stream videos on their Windows accounts, and I need to limit the speed or no one else will actually be able to use the net because the videos hog all the bandwidth.
That’s how the Web Shield works, I’m afraid (by redirecting the traffic into avast! service and scanning it) - at least for now.
You can remove some ports from Settings / Troubleshooting / Redirect settings / WEB - but that’s kinda the same (the non-redirected traffic won’t be scanned).
Would be better if the speed-limiting tool was able to limit the local traffic (between the process in question and AvastSvc.exe).
Yes I have QoS enabled on my router, but that’s for a multi-device environment, right? As in I can limit the bandwidth to other devices connected through wifi, which isn’t related to Avast anymore.
What I need is something that limits the bandwidth to certain processes on my local PC. My siblings stream their stuff through the browser and leave their profiles on when they’re away. I used to be able to to do this when the traffic wasn’t re-directed to avast.
Got a question, I don’t see this issue cropping up with the other antivirus software out there (from the few I’ve tried before anyway). But they do still have real-time scanning and monitoring, right? It’s just that the new Avast re-directs all traffic through its own process?