I recently switched from Avira, and so far I’m really happy of my choice (thanks a lot, guys!) The only thing I’m missing from what I had before is being able to protect my hosts file from being edited or replaced by malware. I’ve tried searching through the settings, faq’s, searching on this forum and all, but I haven’t found anything on this. So does anyone know if this is possible on avast, or if at least there’s a way to pick a file and prevent it from being edited or deleted?
As far as I’m aware there is no setting to lock the HOSTS file in avast, there are too many programs that legitimately use the HOSTS file, mainly hosts file managers, they would also probably have a lock mechanism.
You could also manually set its Properties to Read only.
WinPatrol has an option to Warn if changes are made to the HOSTS file.