I am new to avast and happy with it for the most part.
My son has been using it for sometime and since my Norton’s subscription was fixing to expire I decided to give it a try.
The part I’m not happy with this the On-Access Scanner Message. I asked my son about it and he said the this message doesn’t come on his computer. We check the setting on his computer with the setting’s on mine and they all seem to be the same.
This message come up everytime I go online and everytime I change pages with in a website and go to a new website. It can be very annoying because sometime it can come almost 2 inches from the bottom of the page.
I’d guess that what you’re seeing is the “Show detailed info” in the Web Shield (and maybe also the Standard Shield). Just go into On-Access Control and for each provider that you don’t want these, un-tick Show Detailed Info to turn that feature off. That’s under Customize/Advanced for the Web Shield.
I agree, left on they’re a nuisance most of the time – but sometimes, as in debugging and trouble-shooting, you might want it back on.
Thanks, I changed the setting on the Web Shield and now have the silent mode checked which I assume would be the best thing to do since I was not sure about that. And that seems to have stopped the pop up message.
I’ve also unchecked the “show detailed info on performed action” in the standard shield window.
But, have another question. Should I check the silent mode box and in the silent mode and if so which of the sub boxes should I check.
Silent mode is strictly your choice, and depends mostly on how much of your attention is needed elsewhere. The difference between silent mode and show-details is that silent mode will automatically handle any threats found – I don’t run into many of those myself, and prefer to decide about those on a case-by-case basis, so don’t use silent mode.
On the other hand, show-all-details (as you found for yourself) gives a constant running review of ALL files, pages, etc. checked, whether or not they’re clean. And for most of us most of the time, that’s an unnecessary nuisance.