No not a bug. Silent mode is doing exactly what it should it’s being quiet.
If you turn off notifications for forum posts on avast.com, you can still go to this forum and read all the posts.
Silent Mode should work similarly. It is supposed to prevent the user from being bothered by Avast while using their PC for other tasks, but if they have double clicked the Avast icon then clearly they want to interact with the program and perform all meaningful tasks. Continuing to hide parts of the program like this is an extremely counter-intuitive design, so I assume it must be a bug, because no competent developer would intentionally do this.
Absolutely not, as different as chalk and cheese. The forum software is from SMF and nothing to do with Avast.
You give Avast an instruction to be Silent and it, no interruptions/silent. When you choose to activate it, there is a little ‘i’ (information icon) that tells you what you get when using this.
This when it was first introduced many years ago it was called Silent/Gaming mode (no doubt requested by gamers), now it is just named Silent Mode.
The tooltip in that image doesn’t say Silent Mode will prevent you from being able to start/view/stop scans. It just mentions popups, messages, and alerts. And the avast forum software was an example of an idea or concept, not of how the underlying structure works.
OK, answer me this. If you have Silent Mode enabled so you can do some work, 'why would you start a Scan when that scan is going to use resources (and as you say your “PC is running soooo slow”) ?
It always amazes me why some folks can’t understand that black is actually black and white is actually white.
Silent means silent.
I didn’t start a scan. I just logged in and it started scanning.
Unless you set up a scan, it doesn’t start on it’s own.
It can’t start because it’s in silent mode though.
Scheduled scans also run in silent mode.
I have the same problem, started a scan and stopped it as suggested but still Avast keeps hammering the disk drives using 50% also in task manager says avast installer in operation so i cant even uninstall it. Ill try to disable it from start up if possible. Anyway I hope you are all well other than the stop button that doesn’t stop anything