Use secure virtual machines option.

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Was wondering if someone could help me out, I recently reinstalled my laptop (Windows 8.1) and that included putting Avast free back on.
Everything seems to be running fine but I noticed when I look under Settings/General there is no option for “Use secure virtual machines” under “Enable DeepScreen”.
Is this a problem or should it just not be there for some reason, I’m not sure if it used to be there before I reinstalled and was wondering if it is something to do with Windows 8.1 or some other reason?

Thanks in advance :slight_smile:

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I’m using win 8.1 and it shows use secure virtual machines.

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Thanks for that, removes the 8.1 reason.

To anyone in the know, is there any way or reason at all for that not to be there for me/is there a way to show it somehow that I am missing?

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Did you happen to do a custom install and check the ‘Secure Virtual Machines’ option or was it available ?

Can you give the specs of your system, e.g. CPU, RAM and HDD size ?

NG won’t install if your system won’t support it or is under resourced.

Previously, I didn’t install it on my win7 netbook as I thought that was too under powered, yet at that time the resource requirement was quite low. Having not installed the ‘Secure Virtual Machines’ option, the DeepScreen has no sub options in the avastUI.

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Same here: no option for “Use secure virtual machines” under “Enable DeepScreen”, nor was it available in custom installation.

The check box “Enable hardware-assisted virtualization” is ticked as usual in Settings-Troubleshooting.

Windows 10 Home 64-bit, ASUS notebook, Intel Virtualization Technology and VT-d enabled in bios.

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As far as I’m aware, haven’t there been some posts about NG ‘Secure Virtual Machines’ not working or unavailable at installation with win10 ?

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Thanks for the reply.

I just did the recommended install, not a custom.

Windows 8.1 64bit
Intel i5-4200U (Quad Core) @ 1.60GHz 2.30GHz
8GB Ram
1TB HDD

“Enable hardware-assisted virtualization” is ticked in Settings-Troubleshooting for me too.

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Whilst I don’t use win8.1, it should be capable of hardware virtualisation, which I believe is more important than that of the avast troubleshooting option.

My only though would be on the CPU is that would support it and if so whether or not the Intel i5-4200U (Quad Core) 1.6GHz would be considered by the avast check for installation of the avast ‘Secure Virtual Machines’ module, as sufficient.

This is based not on personal experience, but from others in the forums that have the ‘Secure Virtual Machines’ on win8.1. So I will have to hope someone with personal experience or an avast team member can respond.

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According to this http://ark.intel.com/products/75459/Intel-Core-i5-4200U-Processor-3M-Cache-up-to-2_60-GHz
virtual technology is supported. The problem is that the last few avast releases have not included NG (secure virtual machines).

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Ok thanks for that.

So where does this leave me, do I just not worry about it and in time maybe it will be added again in a future release?
Is there a reason why it has not been included anyway?