Silent mode

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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  1. What happens when i activate the Silent Mode?

  2. In Standard Shield under the voice Silent Mode there’s: With general answer yes (OK) and with general answer no (CANCEL). What are these?

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It depends on which you select General answer No or Yes.

Silent mode with General answer YES will allow the virus past.
Silent mode with General answer NO will move the virus to the avast chest.

Extract from the avast help file, full of useful information.

[b]"Silent" mode.[/b] It is useful mainly for server operating systems. This option ensures that the resident protection will not require any user interaction and will not display any windows. For this reason, it is not recommended to set "choose action" on the Virus page in silent mode, because the interactive action choice requires user interaction of course. It is better to preset some particular action, such as deleting the file or moving it to Chest. [b]With answer Yes (OK)[/b]. All avast! questions that would be displayed on the screen under common circumstances, will be replied Yes. If the selected action is choose action after all, pressing the OK button will be simulated. [b]With answer No (Cancel)[/b]. All avast! questions that would be displayed on the screen under common circumstances, will be replied No. If the selected action is choose action after all, pressing the Delete button will be simulated (i.e. the infected file will be deleted).

I guess you know which you should choose now?

Personally I don’t use silent mode, because I want to know what is going on with my system. If someone is getting so many warnings of virus infection, infected emails, etc. that they become intrusive, then it is time to review their security practice - filter emails at source, delete from server rather than download them, etc.