Avast is an unusually noisy antivirus application.It speaks notifications aloud, displays ads, and bundles a lot of additional software. You can disable some (or all) of these annoyances to quiet Avast down. In any such condition or other, you have to turn off Avast antivirus security during the time of installation or surfing, and this doesn’t mean you have to uninstall the program from pc. You can instead just stop Avast antivirus for some time. Also, you can disable any particular level of scanning of Avast using the second method.
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by Martin Brinkmann on October 31, 2014 in Security - Last Update: October 31, 2014 - 33 comments
Security companies such as AVG, Kaspersky or Avast release new versions of their products each year to the public. The updates do introduce new features from time to time and may also change the interface of the program as well.
Avast released its 2015 lineup recently and one of the new features that all of its antivirus programs ship with is HTTPS Scanning.
It enables the program to detect and decrypt protected traffic using its web filtering component. This alone is highly problematic considering that the program is tapping right into protected data streams but the current implementation is causing all kinds of issues on top of that.
Update: An update to the most recent version of Avast or Firefox seems to resolve the issue.
Firefox users for example may notice that the browser won't close anymore because of Avast's HTTPS Scanning feature. This may not happen all the time when Firefox is closed but users reported that it is happening frequently.
That's however not the only issue that Firefox users may experience if Avast is installed on the computer system the browser is running on.
Firefox's add-on update check may be blocked by the security software as well.
The Mozilla Firefox web browser is not the only program that is affected by issues though. Spotify's Web Player may not be able to connect to Spotify for example with Avast 2015 running on the system.
Users who experience issues after installing the latest version of Avast 2015 have two options:
- Disable HTTPS Scanning.
- Uninstall Avast completely.
It is thankfully pretty easy to disable HTTPS Scanning in the application.
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- Open the Avast dashboard on the affected system.
- Select Settings from the left sidebar menu.
- Switch to Active Protection.
- Click on Customize next to Web Shield.
- Uncheck the 'Enable HTTPS Scanning' option and click ok.
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This turns off the feature in Avast and problems that you have experienced should be a thing of the past.
There is no option to turn off the HTTPS Scanning feature in Avast during installation. While you can disable the Web Shield during installation, it impacts more than just HTTPS scanning and is generally not recommended. (thanks Sören)
Avast's HTTPS Scanning interferes with Firefox and other programs
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The new HTTPS Scanning feature of Avast 2015's Web Shield interferes with programs such as Firefox or Spotify. Find out how to resolve the issues.
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Just tried Firefox Dev and everything returns invalid certificate issues. One possible cited cause are AV software, so I'd like to suspend Avast and see if it clears up.
Suspend/stop - not 'turn off shields', that doesn't do much - Avast is still on the menu bar and still shows up on
pgrep
. At the end of the day, I don't really care about live shields anyway - more interested in scanning downloads and the like.How To Turn Off Https Web Server
I guess I could look at system services and turn Avast off there, but is there no way to tell the app to shut down? Unusual to have such a badly behaved app on Macs.
edit: all the
launchctl
fu I tried to apply didn't work and it even re-appeared after a reboot. I think I'll have to de-install it if I want to truly stop it. Not helping my trust either with a spammy 'your system is wasting x GB storage, do you want to fix it?' popup of theirs.As far as Avast + Firefox Dev edition goes, looking at Connection is Untrusted, I saw that the user uninstalled and reinstalled to accept the Avast cert.
So... I:
- went to regular FF preferences searched for 'certificates' and exported the Avast cert.
- went to FF dev version and imported the cert I had just exported. Its trust only needs to identify websites.
FF Dev works now.
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Uninstalled, this whole 'can't be paused or disabled' is arrogant and annoying, especially as the main reason for wanting it was on-demand scanning of downloads, not constant running.
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