Security Report showed up

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
1

After booting up my PC there was an Avast popup that asked if I wanted read a security report.
I have never seen this before.
Did I miss something where this is an added feature?
Is there any way to disable this report?

2

Have not seen anything on this yet…if you don’t want it, you might try the Community section in the main settings, and un-tick the “Paticipate in Avast! Community” option…just a guess, though, since as I said, this is the first I have seen or heard of it.

3

I checked that section out and the box for Participation has no check mark in it.

4

Nvm, I just re-read that screenshot, and it says right at the bottom that you can disable it in the pop-ups section of the settings.

5

I missed that too.
I unchecked the box.

Thanks.

6

It could be easier to see :wink:

NP, glad to help.

7

I received one too, I thinks it’s a good idea even though I didn’t know about it. One strange thing I noticed is I’ve had a few e-mail viruses that Avast blocked, but the security report said 0 e-mails infected or cleaned.

8

The first online report came up today too…and it said Avast hadn’t scanned anything at all in the last month…even ‘on demand’ scans. Or that Avast picked up four infections. Maybe it was a glitch or something. I hate things like this though it fuels my already over active paranoia about online and viruses.

9

@dumper and @bootpear - could you please send me the link (URL from browser) to your report(you can use mail or PM)? And also log of the shield (AVAST_DATA_DIR\report*log).

thank you

10

Just looked at my mail shield history and I received the dodgy e-mails on the 14th Nov. So with the security report being over the last 30 days Avast was correct in its results.

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Thanks for your reply. I found the online report which is different to the one that popped up initially. This one contains all the correct details.

“http://www.avast.com/en-gb/lp-fr-security-report-t30?utm_source=prg_fav_60_0&utm_medium=prg_lnk&utm_campaign=free2paid&utm_content=prg_fav_en-gbsecurity-report&p_var=.%2Ffa%2Fen-gb%2Fsecurity-report&p_sem=32&p_ssm=5&p_som=246005&p_sim=2238667&p_fsm=69703&p_fim=0&p_msm=0&p_mim=0&p_wim=0&p_wsm=167317&p_pro=0&p_vep=6&p_ves=0&p_lqa=0&p_lsu=24&p_lst=0&p_lex=333&p_lng=en&p_lid=en-gb&p_elm=58&p_vbd=1367”