New Version seems to break BFE and Win Firewall, circumstances not clear

Avast Business Cloud Management Console & Clients
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Finally after some days accepting status quo I found some time to thoroughly examine that thing again. Last time I was stuck at the point of updating the network driver by uninstalling the old one first, forced so by the Intel-Network-Software (which, guess what, didn’t work in my case remotely :P) - however I did revisit the fact that updating Rapid-Store-Software did the trick at least till reboot.

Now next step, as this software is pretty much not so useful (ain’t it?), on an ordinary Workstation I tried uninstalling and this finally resolves the issue on all workstations in question so far.

Also my impression is, as other issues are already addressed with hotfixes this particular one, should one be hit by it, will not be recolved too soon as it maybe is too seldom and there is some probability that this is simply the shitty intel drivers or whatever? I got no definite response in this tickets and I don’t know but now it’s also not important anymore.

Also: it seems the RST-Software only interferes with Avast if a 32bit RST-Software is installed on a 64bit system.

Regards

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You’re right, RST probably doesn’t have a lot of advantage over the Windows 7 driver in pure AHCI mode for an office-class desktop. It is needed for chipset-RAID configs and other RST features obviously, and offers (supposedly) better AHCI performance, but nothing wrong with the basic Windows 7 AHCI driver otherwise. For your chipset, I think you are supported up to RST 12.9 so you could try that if you wanted to find the download and needed RST.

As for 32/64 bit… Its probable that the GUI software only comes built as 32-bit regardless of architecture, meaning you’d have no choice. :wink: The drivers would be 64-bit though. I’m inclined to think a conflict is a symptom of the 11.7 and lower RST (support for certain chipsets was dropped in later releases making for a more stable driver).

And yes, on my suspect PC I have and still use RST 13.1, so I expect I had a fault not related to this thread.