Avast is preventing me from launching character sets

[Peli]

So Avast has started doing what AVG did that caused me to switch away from it about 4 months ago... It will prevent me from launching character sets almost all of the time.

Does anyone know how to fix this or if there's a virus scan out there that doesn't cause this issue?

I've set wow.exe as a trusted process in the Behavior Shield section and I've created exclusions for my WoW and InnerSpace directories in the File System shield section...

I'd love to be able to launch on the first try again, having to close out ISboxer and InnerSpace and relaunch multiple times is getting annoying...

[candlebox]

I always have to run as administrator....i use avg.

[MiRai]

Does anyone know how to fix this or if there's a virus scan out there that doesn't cause this issue?
Microsoft Security Essentials

[Homer]

I use Avira, But I can not say it is the best anti-virus out there. It does the job most of the time.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

ALL antivirus software eventually has a false-positive problem with something. Some more than others. How much you know about it and how much people whine is directly proportional to the popularity of the app/service/etc. that it ends up faulting on.

To better assist you with your problem, what exactly is AVG telling you when it "prevents you from launching character sets?" As in, please paste either the exact error or a pic of the window. More detail is better.

Also, are you running ISBoxer in administrator mode? What about InnerSpace?

[Peli]

ALL antivirus software eventually has a false-positive problem with something. Some more than others. How much you know about it and how much people whine is directly proportional to the popularity of the app/service/etc. that it ends up faulting on.

To better assist you with your problem, what exactly is AVG telling you when it "prevents you from launching character sets?" As in, please paste either the exact error or a pic of the window. More detail is better.

Also, are you running ISBoxer in administrator mode? What about InnerSpace?

It doesn't tell me anything. It simply does not launch the character set when I right click > Launch from the Character Set list in ISBoxer (it does the same when I try it using a desktop shortcut.

I don't usually run ISBoxer in administrator mode, my main account is the administrator on the computer.

[Homer]

It doesn't tell me anything. It simply does not launch the character set when I right click > Launch from the Character Set list in ISBoxer (it does the same when I try it using a desktop shortcut.

I don't usually run ISBoxer in administrator mode, my main account is the administrator on the computer.

Win7 is known to have many issues with admin. A lot of case's admin account or not you also need to select "Run as Administrator" from the right click menu

[MiRai]

It doesn't tell me anything. It simply does not launch the character set when I right click > Launch from the Character Set list in ISBoxer (it does the same when I try it using a desktop shortcut.

I don't usually run ISBoxer in administrator mode, my main account is the administrator on the computer.
Just because your account is an admin doesn't make your programs run in administrator mode (if you have UAC enabled).

[Peli]

Win7 is known to have many issues with admin. A lot of case's admin account or not you also need to select "Run as Administrator" from the right click menu

That is absolutely f$cking stupid. I set myself as administrator because I'm capable of being a grown up and caring for my computer. How do I make it so that whenever I open a particular program it *always* runs as administrator while on an admin account?


Just because your account is an admin doesn't make your programs run in administrator mode (if you have UAC enabled).

I have UAC set to "Never Notify". Is there something further that I need to do?

[Khatovar]

That is absolutely f$cking stupid. I set myself as administrator because I'm capable of being a grown up and caring for my computer. How do I make it so that whenever I open a particular program it *always* runs as administrator while on an admin account?

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11841-run-administrator.html

[Apps]

I had my system hacked about 2 years ago. Speaking with a friend of mine in TX, a Blizz employee at the time, he suggested Kaspersky Labs. When speaking with Customer Support on the same issue, specifically the Account Restoration department, I asked 3 different blizz employees... (whats the best AVP software to use, or would you suggest?).. all of them said Kaspersky Labs.

I got it, havent had a problem since. Low resource usage, decent price, very little affects seen. Not only did it locate immediately the keylogger that was on my computer at the time, its since then eliminated 4 virus's and stopped a pier to pier remote access attempt. I love it, swear by it.

[Lax]

Let me help clear up this "mystery"... Every time this comes up it's exactly the same thing.

And that's this: Setting User Account Control to "Never Notify" (the bottom setting of the slider in the UAC settings box) is not the same thing as disabling User Account Control. All it does is make UAC not tell you when something requires Administrator permissions.

The difference between being an Administrator and a Standard User (non-Admin) for UAC prompts is as follows: If you're an Administrator, you just click Yes/OK; if you're NOT an Administrator, you have to type in the password of an Administrator account in order to click Yes/OK.

So yes, I am an Administrator user on my PC, I have UAC enabled at all times, and when I launch ISBoxer or Inner Space, I click Yes. If I were to change the slider, right now, to "Never notify", then not only will I not get prompted (as per the setting), but Inner Space will also NOT run as Administrator (as per the defined behavior of UAC when enabled).

If you want to launch your team from ISBoxer, ISBoxer has to be running as Administrator. If you want to launch your team from a desktop shortcut (and you have UAC enabled but set to Never notify, as you do) that shortcut has to be marked a Run as Administrator. Alternatively, I very recently built an Inner Space patch and a supplemental program you can use to launch with a non-Administrator desktop shortcut: http://isboxer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=11124#p11124

Hope this helps. :)

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Just because your account is an admin doesn't make your programs run in administrator mode (if you have UAC enabled).

This. Win7 is not WinXP. Unless you manually "Run As Administrator," there's no guarantee it will run in full administrator mode. All an "admin" account on Win7 means is that you have rights to modify the registry and install/uninstall programs, shit like that.

[Peli]

Let me help clear up this "mystery"... Every time this comes up it's exactly the same thing.

And that's this: Setting User Account Control to "Never Notify" (the bottom setting of the slider in the UAC settings box) is not the same thing as disabling User Account Control. All it does is make UAC not tell you when something requires Administrator permissions.

The difference between being an Administrator and a Standard User (non-Admin) for UAC prompts is as follows: If you're an Administrator, you just click Yes/OK; if you're NOT an Administrator, you have to type in the password of an Administrator account in order to click Yes/OK.

So yes, I am an Administrator user on my PC, I have UAC enabled at all times, and when I launch ISBoxer or Inner Space, I click Yes. If I were to change the slider, right now, to "Never notify", then not only will I not get prompted (as per the setting), but Inner Space will also NOT run as Administrator (as per the defined behavior of UAC when enabled).

If you want to launch your team from ISBoxer, ISBoxer has to be running as Administrator. If you want to launch your team from a desktop shortcut (and you have UAC enabled but set to Never notify, as you do) that shortcut has to be marked a Run as Administrator. Alternatively, I very recently built an Inner Space patch and a supplemental program you can use to launch with a non-Administrator desktop shortcut: http://isboxer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=11124#p11124

Hope this helps. :)

Lax,

I'm still having this issue, even after turning on UAC and accepting the popup box, running ISBoxer as Administrator, and switching to Microsoft Security Essentials as Mirai suggested. Any idea why this would be happening?

Thanks.

[MiRai]

Lax,

I'm still having this issue, even after turning on UAC and accepting the popup box, running ISBoxer as Administrator, and switching to Microsoft Security Essentials as Mirai suggested. Any idea why this would be happening?

Thanks.
The next step is to provide a Hijack This log when the problem is happening.

http://isboxer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1251