I have found that during the installation of some programs I am advised to suspend/turn off firewalls and the AV program.
On my last AV program (which sadly trashed my computer 3 times in rapid succession after 10 years of faithful service) there was a button in a drop down menu when press allowed me to “sleep” the AV program.
How do I go about/what entry do I press to to get the same “sleep” mode during an installation? ???
I am at present trialing the ‘freebie’ avast AV program.
That really is the time when you want your AV running not disabled.
If you have an example of a program that suggest that ?
If a program suggests this I would want to know a) why it needed to do that, b) what is it doing that would need the AV disabled and c) what it has to hide.
I haven’t disabled avast in the five and a half years I have had it to install another program.
It is possible though ill advised, right click the avast ‘a’ icon, select Stop On-Access Protection.
In the 6 years I have used avast, there has been no time I have disabled or even stopped On-Access Protection in order to install any other program and there have been many. Any program that requires such action would be very suspect to me and would not get installed on my computers nor on those I support.
As with David, I would also like an example of such a program.
Thanks for your prompt reply. I do agree with you on not stopping the AV program. In the past I never used to stop VET AV and all went well.
Off the top of my head I can not give you an example of the programs making such request, but they were reputable ones. I did not stop the AV during that installation, but I was asked to so to ensure correct installation. I think one of the programs may have been a DVD backing up program, but I can’t be sure.
As you say, load it first with avast running, if a problem presents it’s self, then make enquiries as to why. ;D
Whilst they might have been reputable ones, they really are living in the dark ages when many, many, years ago this was thought to be necessary. This really isn’t the case any more, so if any programs ask this, I ask myself why. Sometimes I’m angry enough to fire off a few emails asking why, but for the most part if an application asks for this, it doesn’t get installed.
I agree; the one & only time I suspended Avast, was when I was trouble-shooting over the phone with a tech. He told me to disable it while trying something; trusting him I did; and minutes later I was infected, & crashed the computer. I have never, ever disabled it again!