Your link has no reference to Avast?
Turning off HTTPS scanning doesn’t mean Avast won’t block HTTPS sites. Sites that are known to be malicious by Avast will still be blocked whether it’s HTTP/HTTPS. Turning off HTTPS scanning means Avast won’t be able to scan website contents, like scanning and analyzing scripts loaded by the site. But then again, if a site loads a third party script but if that third party host is present in Avast’s database, then users will still be protected. Turning it off weakens the protection a bit but not a big loss for home users.
Many AV products on the market are against HTTPS scanning and will detect any such attempt as malicious, but that’s another topic.
You’re entitled to your opinion. It happens to differ from mine.
I’d still appreciate an answer from Avast to my post since that post was directed to Avast.
This is not about opinion. I just explained in simpler term what is HTTPS scanning. Some people misunderstand the term thinking turning off HTTPS scanning means Avast won’t block known malicious HTTPS sites, which is not correct.
Your comment about “Some people misunderstand the term”, well that is a guess, but even then they need to be warned abut that potential risk.
Your simpler terms aren’t that clarifying. If you want to go down the malicious sites route, then all you really need is the Avast Online & Security browser extension as that has all of the same malicious web site detections as the AV (Web Shield).
The problem is expounded in sites that have many 3rd party URL links, none of which are being opened as such so malicious site checks wouldn’t be done by either the AV os the AOS browser extension.
So there is risk, the sooner any malware is detected the greater the chance of it not getting to your system.
I already briefly explained the limitation in my first comment. Check again. My assumption is an appropriate one because most people don’t know what HTTPS scanning is. The name itself isn’t obvious enough. Keep in mind, most people aren’t tech-savvy.
Avast’s extension is bloated, so I wouldn’t recommend that to anyone. It used to slow down webpage loading also. Don’t know if that has improved. Besides, I see that after installing Avast, they don’t offer you to install the extension anymore. It didn’t offer me at least and I’ve installed Avast for testing multiple times. Or, are they offering it to Avast One’s customer only? You may know about it.
Also, as I said in my other comment, Avast can block third party connection even without HTTPS scanning enabled. Avast’s web shield is capable of doing that just fine. A browser extension that can also block third party connection is “McAfee WebAdvisor” (available in Chrome and Edge Store, but sadly not on Firefox). I haven’t found any other extension yet that can do it.
Scripts loaded by a browser can’t be analyzed without HTTPS inspection. If a website “A.com” also connects to a malicious third party domain “B.com” then Avast can detect that without the help of HTTPS scanning. But if “A.com” loads a malicious script “A.com/malware.js” then Avast can’t detect it without HTTPS scanning. So, HTTPS scanning is useful in this scenario.
Hope this further clarifies it. I’m not saying HTTPS scanning isn’t needed. It’s an added security feature (though has some downsides too including some security and privacy concern). HTTPS scanning is also known as HTTPS inspection/SSL inspection/SSL scanning/etc.
Enough already, you’ve made your point.
Thank you very much, now I need to find how to disable it, my question at all is: are more people having this issue? but not reported? Its a bit weird to me that I was trying to find this problem around internet and didn’t find anyone having the same issue when a network connection tried to reach 1 gbs
Would you really recommend turning it off? I really don’t want to be unsafe, also is there any guide around in avast to disable it in a safe way please?
Turning it off lessen your protection. As already explained, the slowdown is due to how Windows handles https.
To turn it off do the following:
Open the UI select Menu (upper right)
Select Settings > Protection
Select Core Shields
Scroll down to Configure shield settings (center)
Select Web Shield > unselect Enable HTTPS scanning
I personally will leave that setting on.
Thank you!, hopefully Avast can fix this later, because when Avast is not installed, Windows has no issues.
I just watched your video, thank you very much!, there is only one thing in the video it’s not completely correct, I don’t get any delay or performance issues on 20 Megabits, not even with my hard drive, SSD, or NVMe Solid State Drive has that issue like your explained.
I only start to get HEAVY performance issues, because it’s not only a delay, the computer freeze by intervals of 500-700 milliseconds when the connection reaches 400 Megabits to 1 Gigabit of the network connection using my Fiber, and I don’t have patience issue, otherwise I wouldn’t stick with Avast with this same issue for about 3 years (since I got my Fiber), the problem is, every time windows update and reach high speed, Steam gets high speed by downloading or updating games, downloading something using the browser, etc, I mean any program that requires download at high speed (400 Megabits to 1 Gigabit), it’s not only frustrating but for example, if the computer it’s updating any software or a game without me knowing this, it can get freeze or even get bluescreen just reset because Windows couldn’t handle the issue with avast.
Note: I said Megabits, not megabyte, and of course, I prefer security over anything else, otherwise I would go to a crapy antivirus like Mcafee or Panda 8) and I cannot say Norton anymore because Avast and Norton got Fused, so I suppose Norton will get better now.
Another thing is: I haven’t tested it on Windows 11, Honestly I don’t want to test the Windows 11 until gets debugged by frustrated Users for a few months or years, some people may tell me Windows 11 is already debugged and all that but by experience, I know Microsoft always screws up a lot in each windows Release.
Ok, I am downloading two games right now on Steam, the speed is over 428 Megabits, and increasing, which delivers a huge performance issue, making the computer shutters, I already disabled the HTTPS scanner in avast like someone suggested here, and still have the same issue, its better when I download anything using a browser, but from any other Apps non from the browser, I still get the issue.