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Updated from the offline installer and so far everything seems okay no issue.

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All seems fine with my free edition for W7 Pro, except the UI front page shows an alert I can’t close, saying to turn off my silent mode. I do not want to turn it off, so why must I be told to every time I open the UI?

Cheers, Tony

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My experience with this obnoxious BS (hey, it’s not my fault here, you’re the ones that have called it like this) feature: after Avast reinstall (2 editions ago, massive BSOD issues caused by the hardware-assisted virtualization feature) this crapola that hogs my hdd and completely takes over one core of my cpu gets disabled, after the daily reboot it reactivated itself so it got uninstalled; first program update it got reinstalled but remained deactivated so i uninstalled it again (btw the SB got installed too then despite me never installing it to begin with); now with this update it got reinstalled and activated, thrashing again my hdd and slowing my XP to a crawl. I should mention that program updates are set to manual and have always been done thru the GUI.
Please, make sure that your updaters respect the user choices.

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[Problem/Issue]
After the update to this version, my Avast Status is a Yellow exclamation mark inside a shield with the word “Attention”. In Yellow letters the words “You are protected” can be seen on the main status page.
In the notifications area, no issue is reported.

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  1. I don’t know why you have quoted part of one of my posts, so quoting this piece in isolation without the quotes i that post takes it out of context. I have never replied directly to any post of yours in this topic, it was directed to user who I quoted.

  2. I don’t work for avast, I’m an avast user just like yourself, so directing your anger in my direction is misplaced.

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Yes that’s a bug and we will fix it this week via UI update.

47

thanks for the stable release.
it works fine so far for my work&home laptop,except for the following issue which was fine in previous beta version

after smart scan , go to see the detail result of the scan by clicking the “detail” button,but it comes to scan again.

thanks.

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This is a known issue that hasn’t been fixed yet.

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Updated through GUI.
Rebooted and the firewall had changed from Private to Public. Had to change back to Private Manually.

Other wise seems to be okay. :slight_smile:

Cheers

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Although I am using the Japanese version, although anti-spam settings are new and expression of the strongest setting is written as “no mercy”, laughter has come up as well as being asked (^ _ ^) ( ※ Automatic translation)

51

It had to be solved with this version according to the assurance of several evangelist :wink:
The versions follow one another but still no resolution for 4 months.
Is it so complicated for avast team?

52

After updating to version 17.5 my customized settings such as: heuristic sensitivity, packers type, PUP scanning, and exclusions setting are reset to default.
It will be nice if in the future, the new version automatically detects my settings and leaves them intact.

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From earlier in this thread: Status monitoring has been been removed. It is now manageable from the Notification Center where you can “ignore” a shield.

I believe the notification center is what we access by clicking on the “bell” icon on the status screen. When I do so, all I see is an indication that I have no new notifications… I don’t see any way to manage what used to be listed as status monitoring. Or do these options [e.g., to ignore] only appear once a status issue (e.g., new program version) has actually generated an alert?

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That quote was from me:

Try turning a shield off and then look at the notification center. There will be an ignore option.

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Thanks :slight_smile: I see that now. However, when I tried disabling (for example) the mail shield, the notification was simply that “some” shield was disabled… it didn’t say which one(s)… and the option was simply to ignore. So if I chose ignore, will that ignore just the mail shield? Or will it ignore ANY/ALL shields being disabled?

Also, under the old status monitoring, there was an option to not be notified about a program update. Is there any way to do this under the new 17.5 version?

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It should leave your settings alone, but it does rather depend on how you install the update and possibly what or how old a version the existing installation was.

If you do a clean install then it wouldn’t. I don’t know if you allow the avast program update to Auto Update, I believe it should retain the settings, but I have ‘never’ allowed it to do that so I can’t speak from personal experience.

An update from the existing avastUI should retain the settings, if you downloaded the full off-line installation setup file and install that over the top of the existing installation, it should retain the settings. That is what I have just done and it has retained my settings.

The above is what should happen.

Note: before a program update I always do a hard drive image, should I ever need to go back.
If that is too much, then the least I would recommend is to backup your settings, avastUI > Settings > General - scroll down to the 'Back up settings option. You can then restore them should it be necessary.

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Thanks for the new release :slight_smile:

I reported this one while beta testing, still not fixed.

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Avast team/devs please confirm if behavior shield and program updates are taken into account when determining the security status.
I swear I saw a manager here passing by/commenting. Guess he missed this.
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Poor UI in ransomware shield.

http://i.imgur.com/u2Fc4ND.png

Is it my Documents folder or some subfolder in the documents folder. No info on mouseover and no detailed view with better information about paths.

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OK it looks like I found a bug in Ransomware Shield UI.

  1. Open Ransomware shield UI.
  2. Click “dust box” on one of the protected folders
  3. Avast will ask you “Stop protecting this folder?”. Choose “Cancel”.
  4. Again click “dust box”. Nothing will happen anymore. :stuck_out_tongue: