I have studied and tried file and web shield exclusions.
Do they really work?
When I use IE8 and go to an excluded home page (eg finance. yahoo.com) I can watch Avast 2014 working for every change on this home page.
The same is the case when I use an excluded program like Acronis backup
and other macro programs working with home pages.
Should it really be like this?
I want exclusions to mean exclusions.
I am also afraid of Avast affecting the processes negatively.
Try setting it from…
avast! UI > Settings > Antivirus > Scroll down to Exclusions > Appropriate tab [url/file] etc > [enter excluion] and then add.
The setting mentioned above works for all shields and on demand scans.
Uhm, is this right? I thought that it only applied to av scans and that shield exclusions had to be set via the active protection settings?
The exclusions found in the Settings > Antivirus are for excluding from all scans and shields ( Global )
…and it does work although I am starting to get annoyed by Avast, increasingly so it seems, flagging up File Rep Warnings about “very new or rare” downloads which I have had to add to my expanding Global Exclusions list.
I recently made the mistake of accidentally clicking on the File Web Rep Warning “Disconnect” option (this was before the download was even selected in my download manager). Afterwards my browser refused to connect to the download server again when I retried. The site in question was the official Dell BIOS archive for my computer.
Only when I added that page to Global Exclusions was I allowed access to the download again. I can only assume Avast was blocking it.
For several years I’ve also had to add a couple of other Dell files, from the Dell folder that came installed with the machine, on the Global Exclusions list as Avast suddenly started flagging those up as suspicious.
They had been happily ignored by the two other AVs used on the computer over the previous 7 years and Avast for a year after that. When I scanned them in the Virus Chest I always received the “No Virus Found” message but after every Avast Quick or Full Scan of my system back they’d be sent to the naughty step. 
My point being is that I have had no trouble since I added them to the Global Exclusions List.
Thanks.
I have used both settings.
http://finance.yahoo.com/* or http://finance.yahoo.com* in the one described above (called Global)
Pls try in IE and report what happens.
The same for programs.
Especially when an excluded program works with an excluded URL.
How do you know that it works when the icon is changing?
For your exclusions you only require the Web Shield exclusions but I don’t know why you would want to exclude those sites anyway, if those sites were to be hacked then then that would be bad luck for you being that you excluded them :o
I want exclusions to be exclusions and not something else.
I have tested this carefully and found exclusions doubtful.
The example is just an example and nothing else.
When I run an excluded program that is safe I want Avast to be quiet.
Pls prove to me that exclusions really are exclusions.
My conclusion from this thread is that
the Avast function Exclusions does not work properly.
Any suggestions for another virus program that has this function?
Thank you
And where’s your proof on that?
Do the exclusions you add via pop-up show on avast UI > Settings > Antivirus > Exclusions ?
If not, do they show on the File System Shield exclusion list?
Also what type of detections are they? (e.g evo-gen)
The exclusions I am talking about have been set in both the places if possible, as stated earlier.
No popup window in my case, of course.
This can also be observed in the task manager.
I would be very grateful to see any detailed example proving that exclusions works for an excluded URL in IE, an excluded program (except for backup programs), and even an excluded program using an excluded URL in IE.
For me this of great interest as I am running scheduled events several times a day.
Any experience from other virus programs?
I don’t know about URL’s as I don’t exclude those but program exclusions added to the exclusions in settings work fine for me.
What doesn’t make sense to me is you think you can exclude a program with a URL ???
I use a safe program working with safe URLs.
I thus exclude both the program and the URL without any effect on Avast. Trivial.
Try a repair…Control Panel>Uninstall a Program>double click “avast”>click “repair”>reboot.
I don’t have those issues at all.
What other security software do you have?
There is no such thing as a Safe URL. It may be Safe Today and Infected Tomorrow.
But, it’s your computer.