Hi
@Digerati
Ummm, another quick search? Curious? Did you not see where I posted that yesterday morning in post #4 above?
If the information about Malwarebytes is there, I didn't notice it sorry?
I did look at the link you provided and found it was about Avast being run without AV activated, but without a working solution. The penny eventually dropped for me using the link below.
I searched for how to unregister Malwarebytes from Windows Security and found the solution here:
https://support.malwarebytes.com/hc...-for-Windows-with-the-Windows-Security-Center
The link shows how to fix a problem when MWB won't register itself in Windows Security. I just did the reverse instead.
Settings >
Security and turned off the "
Always register Malwarebytes in the Windows Security Center" Here's a
pic of how the setting now looks on my own copy of MWBP.
That it continues to protect in real-time regardless I consider a huge bonus because it has often caught things that Avast or SAS wouldn't bat an eye over. On the flip side to that though, MWB also failed to recognise exploits that either Avast or SuperAntiSpyware recognised too. It's why I prefer to have three levels of protection active when possible. AV, Antimalware, AntiSpyware. I often do such tests using a VM through multiple VPNs at a couple of .onion sites I've managed to get access to that are designed for that purpose (zero-day exploits etc) on the dark web.
The Avast solution I eventually figured out from a question I posted to Avast forums myself here:
Avast Password as a standalone module
In Avast Premium Protection, you enable the setting
Menu >
General >
Troubleshooting >
Enable Passive Mode
That essentially turns Avast into an on-demand scanner only.
Once the above two things are done, neither Avast nor Malwarebytes are seen as existing in Windows Security and Defender re-enables itself as the active Antivirus.
As for SuperAntiSpyware, nothing needed to be done for it to continue running in real-time protection mode.
And just for the record, Malwarebytes was not preventing Defender from serving as the primary security solution. That is a feature/function of Defender itself.
Curious. I looked high and low for a setting like that in Defender but couldn't find one. Just for my future reference/education, can you show me whereabouts that configuration option is in Defender?
That said, I find Avast in general extremely frustrating.
On that, I couldn't agree with you more. I particularly hate them trying to upsell registered users with their third party garbage like Cleanup Premium, Secureline VPN, Drivers Updater, Avast Secure Browser etc., and even re-installing trial versions of unwanted components after I'd manually uninstalled myself whenever the program build is updated. With Passive Mode now turned on, I'm hopeful that sort of nagging will now finally stop for good, but somehow, I tend to doubt that.
So I decided to go out to
Avast and see how much Avast Passwords cost to purchase, and what the recurring fees are. Good luck finding it. They don't even appear to have a Search feature on their site.
I'm not sure where that information is either, to be honest, but I see from my account that the last purchase I made was for $28.99 AUD for a 12-month extension. I dislike (one of my pet hates) "Auto-Renewal" subscriptions so some years back, I contacted accounts and insisted they turned Auto-Renew off on all of my Avast related subscriptions. I get warning reminder emails about 2 months before expiry instead now.
The activation code is valid for up to 5 mobile devices as well as 1 Desktop installation.
Regards, Andrew