So I have been using Avast Anti virus free for a long time. I have ALWAYS used silent mode because I dont want to be spammed with with garbage from avast.
Either this is a bug, or if not it needs to be changed.
When Silent mode is engage, and you right click on a file to scan it, NOTHING HAPPENS! You have to turn off silent mode, and NOW the message of the scan shows up in the bottom right corner.
I HATE IT! What was wrong with the way it was before…
Looking for these fixes.
Silent Mode to show when a scan is completed if I manually right click and scan a file.
Return the message back to the center of the screen and NOT in the bottom right.
Why would you have an option to scan a file manually and NOT give a result of the scan. Silent mode or not I am issuing a command to scan a file and need a result.
Silent mode or not I have asked to find out the status of a file and now I am not given one. So your saying now if I scan a file and no status is given its ok to open it? Sounds like your company is trying to infect peoples computers. WHY give the option at all to right click and scan a file then?
Serious someone need to reconsider this horrible change. Silent mode or not this is a bad choice.
When you give the command to run a scan you would normally get a result, however, silent mode overrides that since results are given as notifications. Without silent mode, the scan results come. I would disagree about the statement of trying to infect computers due to the fact the File/Web/Behaviour Shields are running as well as CyberCapture/Cloud reputation services. If the file was indeed malicious, it would have been blocked before being accessed or modified by the File shield.
I can get this escalated to the Avast team but Silent/Game mode shouldn’t be used as a way to stop ads and I doubt this behavior will change.
This option used to be called Silent/Gaming Mode and it has worked this way for as long as I can recall (silent - no interaction with the avastUI interactive elements).
If the true purpose if to use it for Gaming Mode, then avast will automatically enter Gaming Mode if you are using a full screen Game. Otherwise there is no need to check the Silent Mode option.
As I said in my previous post, this option used to be called Silent/Gaming mode and essentially that meant no interaction, no popups/sound/Interaction from the UI and user whilst this option was enabled to interfere with the game.
In that regard, nothing has changed.
I have no need to try that as I don’t use silent mode and it is acting as I expect it to.
Time to read before posting. I stated that this is what you see without silent mode.
I’ve also stated that Silent Mode turns off ALL notifications.
Your choice. If you want to see the notification, DON’T use Silent Mode.
Does anyone understand that before this version Silent Mode and scanning a file WORKED! I always use slient mode and now when you use Silent mode and scan a file it does nothing. This is NOT correct behavior from the way it has worked since the day Avast was released.
Why would you scan a file in silent mode and NOT be given a message that the file has been scanned and no issues found?
But this is not the way Avast! worked in prior versions - that’s the rub.
It seems to me that when a user requests a direct scan the silent mode should be temporarily disabled and the results of that manual on-demand scan should be shown. That is exactly the way previous versions worked when in “silent” mode.
If this is “intentional”, then it has changed over the last 1 or 2 releases because it didn’t use to work this way! All us long-time users just want the darned thing to work the way it used to. I have no qualms about being “interrupted” during a scan that I initiate from File Explorer.
I do get what has changed and I’m sure have stated it. This is not a bug.
In the previous version, the scan resultswere not given in the form of notifications but rather in the middle of the screen.
Avast has decided that scan results will now come in the form of notifications. I know you will find it annoying since the results will not show with silent mode enabled as the feature was abused for blocking ads all the time which it wasn’t designed to do.
Ads can be disabled by purchasing the paid versions and as I’ve said before, the majority of users do not use silent mode. If it’s really that big of an issue, you can always disable silent mode before running a context scan.
@Alikhan - I completely understand. However, I would still stand by my statement that this is a poor design decision from a usability point-of-view. And it breaks with the previous philosophy for on-demand scanning.