How to disable AvastUI.log logging

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi,

When I monitor disk activity with procmon, I see that AvastUI.exe writes to C:\ProgramData\AVAST Software\Avast\log\AvastUI.log a lot…

Is there anyway to turn this logging off?
 Perhaps I should just change permissions on the file so that it can’t be written to?

I notice it is filling the log file with notice,info and warnings [swhealth_ui] asw::swu_ui::SoftwareHealthScanner::Initialize … connecting service controller … Failed to initialize: Rpc call failed SoftHealth_State failed (1753)

Perhaps it’s because it is offline with no wifi. But in this case, it means being offline causes disk activity unncessarily.

The laptop has a slow HDD, so every hit counts, I would like to reduce the load on the disc.

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I just set the AvastUI.log file to Read-Only via Right Click → Properties in Windows File Explorer.

This seems to have worked and reduced disk load and increased machine performance.