Is there any way to check if someone have changed the setting for avast aside from going through the setting one by one?
Not really; you can reset back to default settings, not great if you have made some changes yourself.
Or you can set a password in avast, this should prevent changes being made without the password.
Sorry for the very late reply…so there is really no way at all? even if I only want to know whether something is changed and not specifically what is changed?
I have another question I would like to ask. If someone forgotten to close the avast interface and shut down the com would it
affect avast?
- As I said, the only way to protect settings is by password, there is no function to say one or more settings have changed.
You need to A) control who has access to your computer and B) control what they can do once logged it (limited user account can’t change the avast settings I believe), you shouldn’t just share one single windows user account.
- The only effect it is likely to have is one of resource use when it is open it will be using RAM and CPU. Again you should be controlling who can use your system and what they can do (A & B above), that should resolve what is open when the new user logs on or switches user.
What about saving the settings you are happy with and classing that save as your master. Do an MD5 hash of that and then at any stage later check the hash of a current save against the master. It won’t tell you what has changed, but it will highlight if there is a difference.
I haven’t tried this, and there may be a date/time reference or something simllar embedded in the saved file that might result in the files being different anyhow, but a check with 24 hours inbetween would show whether the idea is workable.
You can save the settings to a location of your choosing and the file name (left at default name) includes date-time information in the name.