Trouble at t'mill.

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Just installed Avast Security Suite.

A few problems.

Sandbox: my browser, Google Chrome, was ‘sandboxed’. My taskbar ‘floats’, as in I point to the top of the screen and it appears. This doesn’t work when in sandbox mode.
The browser is hyper-slow in sandbox mode. Everything ‘hangs’, and Google keeps asking if I want to ‘kill page’ etc.
I have now turned it off.

Browser integration: I am told that the security plug in is not installed. I click ‘install’. I am told that it is already installed?

Scanning: I was running my first ‘full’ scan. It interferred with my browser something rotten. In fact, the browser was unusable. I tried to stop Avast, but I couldn’t. It wouldn’t stop. I tried to close Avast. I couldn’t. I tried to close it via the task manager. It would not stop. The system froze up and I had to press the restart button on my tower, not good, to escape.

I haven’t a clue what’s wrong. What’s wrongly configured or whatever.

I’d be grateful for any constructive advice.

   Tronkus.
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After turning off the sandbox, the ‘full scan’ is now racing along with very little detriment to the browser.

But why should I have to turn the sandbox off to have a fully functioning browser?

I’m thinking that I might as well have gone with the free version if I’m unable to use the reputedly useful sandbox.

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First of all you shouldn’t be doing anything else while running a full scan. Let it run and walk away. The browser plugin should be installed via the Chrome store. Ignore what the GUI states.

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Right then.

That’s ‘Well first of all…’ taken care of.

And secondly…?

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I use avast free cause thats all I need. Avast sandbox is not as mature as something like Sandboxie. Better off with avast free and sandboxie if you want to use a any type of sandbox.

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Cheers, chap.

You are dead right: Avast free is way good enough; tons better than the execrable AVG (paid version) that I had.

I’ve now upgraded my free Malwarebytes to Pro. I reckon Avast free plus Malwarebytes is going to do me fine.

One question, though, as you obviously know what your on about: I’m now left with just the Windows firewall. Is this going to be good enough? Or would you recommend something else?

Thanks again for your advice. The last time I looked, ninety-odd people had viewed my post, and you were the only one to offer assistance.

Paul ‘Tronk’ Gammage

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Windows Firewall is good enough ever since Vista. When you consider most people are behind a router then thats all you need. 3rd party firewalls just add a lot of unnecessary chatter. You need to exclude MBAM from avast and avast from MBAM since your using MBAM Pro. Sorry but the mods around here are extremely slow. I am glad I could have helped you.

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Thanks for the advice. I’m grateful to you, mate.