Importing settings doesn’t include your registration of your subscription, as far as I can tell. I installed AIS on my wife’s new laptop a couple of months ago, and imported my backed up settings from my laptop. I still had to install the license key ( I have a 3 pc/2 year subscription).
Note that the importation of settings from one machine may (likely will not) match all settings, eg. paths, program exclusions.
. . . Note that the importation of settings from one machine may (likely will not) match all settings, eg. paths, program exclusions.
LOL yes, I’ve noticed this too - I check what it did to my notes, and see that it misses some things, I wonder why it does that.
Also, to get some settings from the drop down menus, you have to select a setting that you don’t want, first, before you can get the setting you want to stick. Weird.
The current Avast 2015 doesn’t seem to save certain settings that Avast 2014 did. One such example in AIS: Always run in Sandbox doesn’t survive a restart of Windows as it always did in previous versions. There are still flaws in this version that haven’t been addressed even when posted several times.
Yesterday, I verified that it did do a perfect Restore of the settings from my computer, to another. What I have seen before:
Settings / Active Protection / File System Shield / Customize / Actions / Virus-PUP-Suspicious
. . . what I do: for all three, make the actions: Fix auto / Move to Chest
. . . They don’t initially hold the setting, so just keep doing it . . . or, click one of the other settings, it will hold - then click the one you want, and it will hold
Scan - Quick scan / Settings / Sensitivity / Heuristics / High . . . I think it didn’t hold this setting before, in a Restore to another computer