Avast keeps popping up a warning dialogue and playing a loud alert sound whenever it decides to scan a newly detected .exe being executed that it thinks might be suspicious. It never actually finds anything, but the sound is really jarring & terrifying, since it is exactly the same sound as for an actual virus detection. Why terrify the user every 20 minutes?
Is there a way to disable just the warning sound or change it without turning off protection, when there is no actual virus?
If there is no way, then treat this as a quick feature request, since this is too intrusive.
First, I’m an Avast user and not an Avast Team member.
Have you made any changes to the Avast Notifications settings (I can’t recall if this is a default setting). I don’t believe that would stop the Avast Alert Window being displayed.
So are you getting the Avast Alert Window, as well as the sounds ?
Every 20 minutes seems strange/excessive, what are you doing ?
Thank you. I did go through Notifications but didn’t see “Sounds”. That should help immensely.
I guess I was looking to change the sound or limit it to just that feature, but this will do nicely. Thanks for the screenshot too.
The reason for the sudden alerts “every 20 minutes” is simply due to my AI coder running its own generated Testing .exe file in the temp folder, and when it runs, it triggers this precaution. But it still seems to allow it to run because the AI doesn’t notice any interruption and still receives the results back.
You’re welcome,
Even thought this was a very, very, long time ago I can still recall the first time I heard it, apart from being very noisy it scares the pants of you.
As you have now pinned it down to an App (or its test routine) that you are intentionally running. You could add an exception/exclusion for that app or the testing . exe file.
Indeed. I have been considering how to create the exception.
The AI uses a random folder and .exe name each time and sometimes creates multiple test projects, so I guess I could instruct the AI to use a dedicated prefix for the folder and/or .exe, and hopefully exceptions allow wildcards.
Whilst the Avast Exceptions allows the use of wild cards, the act of the AI coder using not only a different folder and a different file name.
I fear that an exception for a totally (AI Coder randomly assigned) unknown file and location would be virtually impossible. You would in effect be disabling the Avast Protection with any filename and any location.
I don’t know if adding the AI Coder to the Avast Settings > General > Blocked and Allowed Apps would work either.
