After a routine automatic program update, Avast Free Antivirus version 5 will prompt you to restart your computer.
I want my kids to use the log out routine I have installed. I realise I can set the updates to manual but that gives me another task to do on all the PCs.
Is there any way of suppressing the restart prompt (avast5.ini?) please?
may that will help you"i dont understand a lot of what you say"
from the GUI settings->update
then press details
uncheck from update options:ask for reboot when needed
Thanks Superhacker but I believe unticking “ask for reboot when needed” will make Avast reboot the PC automatically and immediately???
I don’t want Avast to reboot my PC. I don’t want Avast to ask me if I want to reboot my PC.
My PCs are switched off after use (using my routines to disconnect the network attached drives etc) so Avast should finish the upgrade next time they’re turned on - all without any user interruption/intervention.
Hope I’ve explained myself ok.
It looks as though if it is unticked, then the pc will be rebooted automatically:
[b]Ask for reboot when needed [/b]- some updates require a system restart to take effect. If this box is checked, the restart will not be automatic. You will be asked whether you want to restart the system now, or later.
I think the best option would be for you to update the program shortly before you switch the pc off, that way it doesn’t interupt what you are doing.
-Scott-
Yes thanks Scott, that would be a fine solution for me.
But I didn’t want to inflict this manual process on my 9 year old kids or Wife.
Everything is locked down, software updates are turned off (which is fine for everything other than antivirus), firewall has a deny all as it’s last rule, Avast has password protection turned on, and log off/turn off is via my wrap up routines.
I really would like Avast to download updates automatically but I don’t want my users faced with a reboot prompt or heaven forbid an automatic restart.
I saw it once said that Avast was the most configurable antivirus. Anyone know how to suppress the restart prompt (and not reboot) please?
Well, before they are faced with that they will be faced with the ‘Update Now’ pop-up as by default Program Updates are set to Ask (so they aren’t done when you/the user might be busy).
So if they ignore that pop-up the program won’t happen unless you set even Program updates to Auto as you are suggesting, users could find the program update at a time not convenient to them. So it is a little quandary as to which is the lessor of two evils. Me on dial-up (and many still are) an auto program update is the last thing I would want.
Side note, I would think that your 9 year old kids aren’t running on an account with administrator privileges, so I don’t believe they would get program updates as he doesn’t have permissions. So I would have thought that those on limited user accounts shouldn’t be troubled by this.
I also would have thought that program updates would require administrative account, but this seems not to be so. See http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=55517.msg469347#msg469347
I for one would like to see this confirmed as since avast 4.8 didn’t do it and avast 5 is installed in a different way in the All Users account rather than in a specific user account (with admin privileges).
I would have thought that would require admin privileges as it effects other users ?
As Vlk says in that thread, the update is done in the context of the avast! service, so it has admin rights. A manual update does though.
Just seems to go against what I though a limited user account is for, not being able to change things that may have an effect on other users.
A couple of days ago I would have thought the same thing. However, since AvastSvc.exe runs under SYSTEM instead of the logged in user it has full access to the entire system and can do anything it wants.
OTOH, AvastUI.exe runs under the logged user privileges. That may be why some of the earlier releases of Avast5 required administrative log-in to save some settings.
So back to my original question…
Anyone know how to suppress the restart prompt (avast5.ini setting?) and not automatically reboot, please?
It really has been answered in a way, suppress the restart prompt and it will automatically restart in Scott’s Reply #3 from his quoted text of the help file.
Currently there is no option in avast5 (nor was it available in 4.8 avast4.ini either) to do as you suggest not to restart only to suppress the notice (but that would result in a restart anyway).
I can see I was after something a little different from the norm. I probably need a version that’s targeted to protecting servers rather than a home desktop product.
I’ll look in to Avira / AVG etc but not expecting they’ll be any better.
For the meantime I’ll make signature updates automatic (which hopefully won’t need a reboot) and set program updates to manual (for me to do routinely).
Thanks for all your suggestions. Generally happy with Avast but was just hoping to hack it a little more (like increasing AlwaysConnectedWaitSeconds to boot up quicker). 