Loop creating avastui.exe - why?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hello,
I am testing Avast (free edition 6.0.1203, for now) in order to choose it for my 3 home PCs (I am abandoning ZoneAlarm because I feel it’s too heavy).
One question: I see a weird load because windows explorer is looping on the file avastui.exe.
The loop consists in opening, mapping, querying and closing the file.
How can I stop this?

Another question about sandboxing (a feature new for me): everytime avast doesn’t know a program, it is “sandboxed”, but then I get errors from the program due to memory locations not accessible, etc.
How can I avoid this?
Thanks!
(hoping to be clear…)

(Windows/XP SP3)

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The free edition does NOT have a firewall neither an on demand sandbox.
Are you testing the trial version instead?

3

Hello;
1 - on the PC running avast in fact there’s only the Windows firewall active;
2 - I am running the free edition avast; there’s an automatic sandboxing; but you are right, I am making confusion; the problem with “first-run-sandbox-memory-errors” came from Comodo tests on another comnputer.

Why do you mention the firewall?
Avastui.exe is a firewall’s module?
Bye

4

Nope, it’s the avast! GUI.

5

Ok, makes sense… but then again: why while avast is running one (windows/explorer) should create/map/query/close the GUI?
Weird…

6

It’s the animation of the tray icon. disable it in the avast settings and it wil go away…

Thanks
Vlk

7

Hi, thanks for the information!
It worked.
BTW I believe that is important when evaluating an antivirus (that probably in Microsoft environments IS a vital piece of software, and contonuously running), for the conscious user, to know as much as possible the tasks that he will see appear and stay there.
As such one can understand cpu loads; sudden changes in disk access, sudden slowing of the system, etc.
In this way, one feels in control.
Thanks again.

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You’re in control when you could configure.
You’re in control when avast allows a lot of configurability.