jwall
April 4, 2013, 4:46pm
1
Have ccleaner version 4 and Windows 7 Premium 64 bit. I upgraded avast from version 7 to version 8 and in application column in ccleaner, it lists avast 6 and avast 8. I've cleaned both, but there are always 5 log files that come back in the avast 6 section.
Can anyone explain?
I did an upgrade to avast 8, not a clean install (seems to be working fine) and I can't fine any reference to version 6 or 7 for that matter, unless I'm not looking in the right spot??
Looking for answers, thanks.
It's either a registry detection or a file/folder detection which is in the same place as the previous version. You could untick Avast 6 and ignore it, and then when Avast has another major version jump to lets say 9 try a clean install to see if that fixes the issue.
Nergal
April 4, 2013, 9:52pm
3
Here is the issue, (developers please take note):
They both use the SAME detect keys
Current Code (including AA4 and 5)
[Avast! Antivirus 4]
ID=2160
LangSecRef=3024
Detect=HKCU\Software\ALWIL Software\Avast\4.0
Default=True
FileKey1=%ProgramFiles%\Alwil Software\Avast4\DATA\report|avast.xsl;Resident protection.txt;Simple user interface.txt;Simple user interface*.xml
FileKey2=%ProgramFiles%\Alwil Software\Avast4\DATA\log|*.*
[Avast! Antivirus 5]
ID=2161
LangSecRef=3024
Detect=HKCU\Software\ALWIL Software\Avast\5.0
Default=True
FileKey1=%ProgramData%\Alwil Software\Avast5\report|avast.xsl;avast.xsl;Resident protection.txt;Simple user interface.txt;Simple user interface*.xml
FileKey2=%ProgramData%\Alwil Software\Avast5\log|.
[Avast! Antivirus 6]
ID=2271
LangSecRef=3024
Detect=HKLM\Software\Avast Software\Avast
Detect2=HKCU\Software\Avast Software\Avast
Default=True
FileKey1=%ProgramData%\Avast Software\Avast\log|.
[Avast! Antivirus 8]
ID=2324
LangSecRef=3024
Detect=HKLM\Software\Avast Software\Avast
Detect2=HKCU\Software\Avast Software\Avast
Default=True
FileKey1=%ProgramData%\AVAST Software\Avast\log|.txt
FileKey2=%ProgramData%\AVAST Software\Avast\Spamconf| .bin.tmp*
FileKey3=%ProgramData%\AVAST Software\Avast\report|*.txt
Suggested Change for developers to make
[Avast! Antivirus]
ID=2271
LangSecRef=3024
Detect=HKLM\Software\Avast Software\Avast
Detect2=HKCU\Software\Avast Software\Avast
Detect3=HKCU\Software\ALWIL Software\Avast\4.0
Detect4=HKCU\Software\ALWIL Software\Avast\5.0
Default=True
FileKey1=%ProgramData%\AVAST Software\Avast\log|*.txt
FileKey2=%ProgramData%\AVAST Software\Avast\Spamconf|*.bin.tmp*
FileKey3=%ProgramData%\AVAST Software\Avast\report|*.txt
FileKey4=%ProgramFiles%\Alwil Software\Avast4\DATA\report|avast.xsl;Resident protection.txt;Simple user interface.txt;Simple user interface*.xml
FileKey5=%ProgramFiles%\Alwil Software\Avast4\DATA\log|*.*
FileKey6=%ProgramData%\Alwil Software\Avast5\report|avast.xsl;avast.xsl;Resident protection.txt;Simple user interface.txt;Simple user interface*.xml
FileKey7=%ProgramData%\Alwil Software\Avast5\log|*.*
D_Bone
April 5, 2013, 1:53am
4
On my clean install with only avast! 8 ever installed, it still shows a check-box for version 6. It's been that way for a long time.
Nergal
April 5, 2013, 2:18am
5
yes, this is because the reason that I said in the post above
in fact even if you never installed 8 and only had 6, it would show both.
"...in fact even if you never installed 8 and only had 6, it would show both..."
Thanks, good explanation. Have wondered about that for a while now.
jwall
April 5, 2013, 12:55pm
7
Thanks for the info, I'll just untick avast 6 and live with it.
D_Bone
April 5, 2013, 3:59pm
8
It would be nice if they would fix it some day...........One can only dream.