Bug or by design ?

I do the following:

  • I boot my system and wait +/- 10 minutes so it is sure that everything is loaded.
  • I disable all shields till next boot (through right click on the avast icon near the clock)
  • All shields are disabled
  • Without doing anything else, about 5 minutes later all shields enable theirselfs again.

Is it supposed to work this way or is it a bug/flaw ?

It is the Management Console that overrides the AV settings, so it is by design.

If I disable them again, they stay disabled.

Try to force-sync the client settings by restarting the Avast Business Console Client service and it should re-enable again.