I can't disable Rootkit detection

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi.

I want to disable the rootkit detection in the Core Shield. To test something. But it won’t let me. When I uncheck the box Avast immediately returns me to the main status screen and the setting hasn’t been changed.

I can uncheck the nested exploit detection box, but not the main “Enable Rootkit detection” box. It won’t work.

The thing I’m trying to test is a weird behavior of my PC where when I start a program it randomly sometimes sits there for about 10 seconds doing nothing. Waiting. No notable CPU activity, no disk activity, no network activity. Seemingly. So I want to test if this is caused by some component of Avast Free.

But as it is I can’t seem to even test this.

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Confirmed, same here.

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Note, the devs are working on a fix…

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Update, is has been fixed in UI V1.0.394 (released a few minutes ago).

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How was this released, as a manual program update reports the program is up to date, but the UI is still 1.0.382. Are you talking about the current beta or the regular program version ?

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Hi Dave, the UI has its own/separate update channel. It might take a while to propagate to all servers.

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Hi. I just checked for updates manually. UI is version 1.0.390. Still has the bug. I’ll check later today.

Thanks for the fast response.

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You’re welcome.

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Thanks, still no joy as yet though.

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Still no new version available.

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Snap still no change.

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Hi guys, same here, I’ll report it…

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I’m still stuck on UI 1.0.387, even after manual update attempts that came to nothing.

Update: Just did a Restart (boot) and now have UI 1.0.390, but not 394 with the fix yet.

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Same here. 390.

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Hi guys, I got updated to UI V1.0.394 today.

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I’ve manually checked several times during the day, including just now, and nothing. Still 1.0.390.

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See if it helps to reboot twice…

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Well I did an About Avast and nothing out of the ordinary, but on going into Settings > Update, it reported virus definitions out of date. I just wondered if this might be the delivery, but still on 1.0.382.

Going to reboot to see if that does anything.

EDIT: 1st reboot went to 1.0.390 about to reboot again.

EDIT2: Nada, still on the slightly newer UI version 1.0.390.

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Yup still .390 here as well

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Still 390 after reboot.