Odd :-[ - I’ve never seen any script shield activity on my w7 64bit system with IE9 (32 bit or 64 bit).
There is script shield activity associated with other programs with script activity (such as WMP) though. Is that definitely IE9 browsing ss activity on your w7 64bit system?
If so I’ll need to do a bit more digging I think ???.
Did you need to do anything to IE9 settings to get it to work?
The last script that Script Shield scanned on my x64 with using 4.0 Beta 12 was a Windows Scripting Host script generated by PSIA.exe which is the Secunia PSI Agent (software update advisor).
It also doesn’t work with Chrome. I use Chrome 100% of the time, and I’m now just wondering if the SS is just taking up RAM for me. Maybe I should uninstall the SS??
It isn’t just browser bases scripts that it scans.
If it wasn’t scanning anything, it would be dormant how could it be taking up RAM as the function is controlled by the avastSvc.exe its RAM use would be within the avastSvc.exe process which if you check is still relatively light. So uninstalling it I rather doubt would make any appreciable difference to RAM use.
I have firefox as my default browser (which currently isn’t supported), yet it is scanning scripts, which are outside of firefox.
I don’t think anyone official from Avast has clarified this yet, so could they please?
I’d be very disappointed if this shield only works with a certain browser. Further, if this is indeed the case, it should be clearly stated on the website or in the docs. It is not (that I could see).
It seems rather pointless to provide a protective shield if it fails to work for a good percentage of internet facing apps.
I don’t want to sound snarky, but I’m moving closer and closer to requesting a refund on the two licenses I purchased. The program seems unfinished, buggy, and with features not offering the level of protection one would expect.
Of course, if I’m way off base as far as script shield needing to work with all browsers is concerned, please correct me.
OK, point taken regarding the RAM ;D I have had avast6 installed since beta, and for over the entire time its been installed, my SS has scanned 0 scripts. Is that because Chrome is better somehow at blocking scripts, or is it simply because avast6 doesn’t support Chrome?
I will leave SS installed, but I’m just curious why it hasn’t at least scanned 1 script on my machine?