running program in background

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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How would I go about telling avast to do things without feeling the need to tell me every time? About every 2-3 minutes, I get a string of 4 attacks (3 adware and 1 trojan, I’m sure they are false positives, but that doesnt matter.) I would like avast to just take whatever threat it blocks, throw it in the chest, and move on, without bringing up the “what should I do” screen. How do I do this?

Thanks in advanced, avast saved me from a rather nasty attack that Norton epically failed to stop.

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You need pro version to do this…

3

False positives appearing every 2-3 minutes? Doesn’t really sound like false positives…
Do yo have any more information about the detections? (exact malware names, full file names)

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I’ll follow Igor’s advices.
Anyway, if you want to keep the things as strange as they are, you need to use the Exclusion lists:

For the Standard Shield provider (on-access scanning):
Left click the ‘a’ blue icon, click on the provider icon at left and then Customize.
Go to Advanced tab and click on Add button…

For the other providers (on-demand scanning such as the screen-saver or the Simple User Interface):
Right click the ‘a’ blue icon, click Program Settings.
Go to Exclusions tab and click on Add button…

You can use wildcards like * and ?.
But be careful, you should ‘exclude’ that many files that let your system in danger.

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C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\ac8zt2\main_uninstaller.exe (Win32:Adware-gen [Adw])
C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\ac8zt2\msmdev.dll (Win32:Agent-LTS [trj])
C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\ac8zt2\nsduo.dll (Win32:Adware-gen [Adw])
C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\ac8zt2\rmv.exe (Win32:Adware-gen [Adw])

Those are the files that come up about every 2 minutes. I tell avast to move them to chest, where it then refreshes my desktop, waits a couple minutes, and goes through the prosess again. Gets rather annoying.

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Just summising but it could be that a virus is respawning these files due to it running, as you can see they are temp files from some running process on your computer, each time it is run it recreates more temp files

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You’re infected and need to be clean. The problem is the virus and not the annoying from avast.
I suggest:

  1. Disable System Restore and reenable it after step 3.
  2. Clean your temporary files.
  3. Schedule a boot time scanning with avast with archive scanning turned on.
  4. Use AVG Antispyware; SUPERantispyware and/or Spyware Terminator to scan for spywares and trojans. If any infection is detected, better and safer is send the file to Quarantine than to simple delete than.
  5. Test your machine with anti-rootkit applications. I suggest AVG or Trend Micro RootkitBuster.
  6. Make a HijackThis log to post here or, better, submit the RunScanner log to to on-line analysis.
  7. Immunize your system with SpywareBlaster or Windows Advanced Care.
  8. Check if you have insecure applications with Secunia Software Inspector.
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This may be a variant of Zlob.

Rogue Anti-Spyware Removal. - Usually associated with ZLOB detection.

Try this tool, RogueRemover, available here http://www.malwarebytes.org/rogueremover.php.

You might also try SUPERantispyware as it seems effective against Zlob.