I love Avast. It’s a lightweight antivirus that does the job.
However, it prevents windows startup programs such as CoreTemp and Greenshot, even though I’ve added them to both the exception list and the allowed apps list.
These programs are set up to start both as scheduled tasks and in the Win 10 startup folder. In the task scheduler, the programs are disabled.
Interestingly, other programs on windows startup work just fine i.e. Winamp.
It’s definitely Avast causing this, since with other antivirus programs the issue doesn’t occur.
So, how do I allow startup programs to run without disabling the Avast rookit protection? Thanks!
Avast: 20.10.2442 (build 20.10.5824.626) OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit 1909.
No other security software installed.
Have been using Avast for years.
Switched briefly to BitDefender for a month to see is this issue occurs with that antivirus as well.
It does not, which means it is definitely something Avast is causing.
Reproducing the issue is difficult, as I keep having to re-enable scheduled tasks in Task Scheduler every time.
Just tried, separately:
Delay Avast on startup
Disabling the Rookit Protection
Disabling the ransomware shield
Disabling all shields
The culprit seems to be Do Not Disturb Mode.
Upon reenabling the tasks, if I reset my machine the tasks remain enabled.
However, if I enter fullscreen application that’s in Avast’s Do Not Disturb Mode, all scheduled tasks in Task Scheduler except Avast are disabled when the OS next starts.
Apparently, it is somewhat of a known issue among users, apparently, even with the old Game Mode.
Thanks for the log! Don’t worry, we don’t log anything that could be misused
Yes, this is it. According to your log ColorVeil switches every ~100ms to fullscreen back and forth. We will have to come up with a generic solution for applications of this type. Meanwhile, you can either disable the rule (as you mentioned) or remove ColorVeil from the DND list.
I am trying to start Outlook and Brave from the Startup folder as per Task manager. It will maybe owrk ofr 1 or 2 reboots then both are disabled.
I found the following in the asOutExt64 log file
I do not have a Performance tab in settings…
2022-09-20 18:48.07 : INFO [0644] === AsOutExt stopped ===
2022-09-21 07:22.56 : INFO [4812] === AsOutExt started ===
2022-09-21 07:22.56 : INFO [4812] Outlook version: 16.0.0.15601
2022-09-21 07:22.56 : INFO [4812] Parsed outlook version: 16
2022-09-21 07:22.56 : ERROR [4812] Spam init failed (0x643)
2022-09-21 07:22.56 : DEBUG [4812] — InitAvastLibs completed —
2022-09-21 07:22.56 : INFO [4812] Addin version 16.0.15601.20148
2022-09-21 07:22.56 : INFO [4812] debugLog: on
2022-09-21 07:22.56 : INFO [4812] ProductInfo: 21
2022-09-21 07:22.56 : DEBUG [4812] >> Settings::Init begin
2022-09-21 07:22.56 : DEBUG [4812] spam provider is NOT installed
2022-09-21 07:22.56 : DEBUG [4812] mail provider is installed
2022-09-21 07:22.56 : DEBUG [4812] mail shield enabled
I have had a similarf issue. avast is stopping some programs such as MS Teams and a wallpaper changer from loading. It is disabling it in the startup task. I have turned avast off until restart, enabled the programs and they start. when the PC is restarted with avast running, it disabled them again. Have had no reply from avast support
If my memory serves me right, there is a section in Avast One that deals with speeding up your system.
If that’s selected, it’s possible it’s turning off sone unneeded startup programs.