You are entitled to your opinion. 
BOB
It’s not his opinion… it’s what the product itself says it does and it’s what I’ve said and as NOEL is showing you in a picture says… exclude it from all scans… doesn’t say if the wind is blowing from the southeast, it’s the third Sunday of the month between the hours of noon and 4, and the user is standing on his head with an orange popsicle… it says exclude it from “all scans”. Which is exactly how every other product operates that has an exclusion list… it ceases to be scanned.
NOEL
I don’t believe it has anything to do with a reinstallation… I think Avast needs to fix the bugs and at this point they are obviously dedicating all their resources to 2015 and not fixing 2014 anymore unless something critical transpires. So even though many users have a bunch of threads on here about how the exclusions don’t work for a YEAR now, whether it be in File Path or Hardened Mode (which I have personally turned off because I got tired of dealing with the nonsense), they won’t be fixing it in this version. Personally, I’ve been a loyal user of Avast for many years and never even had a reason to come on this board until the whole 2014 snafu was introduced, but if 2015 doesn’t get it right, pretty much straight out of the box, I’m gone and taking quite a few people with me. There are plenty of AV’s that are doing better than Avast as far as identifying viruses (Avast cheerleaders that say Avast can do no wrong, are OK with them doing whatever they want on your system and ignoring your choices on your system, and say there are no bugs, will tell you otherwise).
Have you tried a clean reinstall? It can’t hurt to try it.
If I didn’t personally have a problem with an early version of 2014 not properly connecting between its UI and configured settings myself, I wouldn’t suggest it.
Regarding what is opinion… I see that roughly half the folks who responded to my poll thread so far have had to reinstall Avast 2014. Most folks would say that in general people’s computers are screwed up all the time and so it’s expected, but to me it’s an indication the Avast programmers have made at least one serious mistake somewhere in the various updates.
In any case, I’ve had recent good luck with successfully excluding false positives by just the method reported in this thread, so if you have a problem with it not working give a clean and reinstall a try.
-Noel
disable avast how many minutes and do Restore and add to exclusions
As posted by me yesterday the solution for non working exceptions is here: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=155762.0
In short:
- Go to virus chest → Right click on desired file → Restore and add to exclusions
- Go to restored file, run it so Avast! detects it again
- Go to virus chest → Select both detections → Right click on selection → Restore and add to exclusions → Avast displays message about adding file to Global exclusion list.
- Done, do whatever you like.
P.S. It seems that the more posts user has the larger the ego and less help you get.
If you use the “right click” option in the chest, wouldn’t it be better to “re-scan” before restoring the file? ???
Once in the chest it can’t hurt anything so the re-scan option would be the preferred method.