Latest version of Avast Antivirus

Tews said:

The only problems that I have with Avast is that it drops my speed from 40mb/sec to 20mb/sec ..

Avast is copying Kaspersky's bad habits now. Very bad. I have not been affected by this new avast "issue" yet, but if i do im gonna change to norton IS 2010.

so i have avast 5.0.418 and i cant update to 5.0.462... its telling me every time that i dont have enough rights (only user in my cpu, admin, and no UAC)

mitchell64 said:

psikofunkster said:

Tews said:

The only problems that I have with Avast is that it drops my speed from 40mb/sec to 20mb/sec ..

Avast is copying Kaspersky's bad habits now. Very bad. I have not been affected by this new avast "issue" yet, but if i do im gonna change to norton IS 2010.

I have not had this problem so i cant play around with it to see if i can correct it.

But just out of interest you may want to try lowering the sensitivity or turning off the Heuristics scanning in Web shield & see if it makes a difference? :)

When I was using Avast! 5 Free, I read in the forum that they recommend keeping the Web Shield's Heuristics Sensitivity at normal because it can/will slow down your internet speed.

mitchell64 said:

rixto003 said:

so i have avast 5.0.418 and i cant update to 5.0.462... its telling me every time that i dont have enough rights (only user in my cpu, admin, and no UAC)

Hallo rixto, try right clicking on Avast in your start menu and then select Run as Administrator.

Then try & update, see if it works? :)

So still doesnt update... made a pic just in case (had to dl english pack for it because i doubt u can speak/read estonian )



Edit: just in case tried with UAC on... still nothing, just windows keeps buggin me with everything now :S

mitchell64 said:

Edit: The more i think about it, having UAC disabled you are not able to run elevated commands as an administrator,
You can only run commands as a logged on user. (Username/Adminstrator) is not a true Administrator account.
It is only a User account with more priviliges than a standard User account, so in turning UAC off as far as i can make out Username/Administrator only seems to have the privileges of a normal User account.

Well we can only wait & see if it works for you as to wether my theory is right or not

Actually when one has turned off UAC, it should have the same privileges as Hidden admin.
As there is nothing that will obstruct him and give him Standard User privileges token...

But try it, it may work.

jav said:

mitchell64 said:

Edit: The more i think about it, having UAC disabled you are not able to run elevated commands as an administrator,
You can only run commands as a logged on user. (Username/Adminstrator) is not a true Administrator account.
It is only a User account with more priviliges than a standard User account, so in turning UAC off as far as i can make out Username/Administrator only seems to have the privileges of a normal User account.

Well we can only wait & see if it works for you as to wether my theory is right or not

Actually when one has turned off UAC, it should have the same privileges as Hidden admin.
As there is nothing that will obstruct him and give him Standard User privileges token...

But try it, it may work.

Yes this is what i thought would have been correct, but i just tried it again.

If i turn off UAC and restart, if i then try to run an elevated command prompt it is only a username command not an administrative command