The free version of Antivir has a pop up when it updates the virus definitions. This isn't really all that annoying to me but some feel it's a little intrusive. Using AutoHotKey with the following code should kill the pop up as soon as it may arrive which means it may be visible for a brief moment or not.
WinWait, Notifier of Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus
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if the virus updates are done every 24 hours and you have an idea when that would be then this script could possibly be launched a few moments prior to the update instead of having it sit there constantly. That way the script is launched say 5 min prior to the update, it sits and waits, and then when the update happens it exits the pop up after it pops up, and then the script exits, freeing up the space it would have taken if it had sat around all the time.
At least this is my hypothesis.
Which has shown to work, however with new programs comes new possibilities. Process Lasso has the ability to kill processes that start up so if we set avnotify.exe as a disallowed process we should be able to stop the pop up while maintaining full functionality of the scanner and updates.
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Ran a trial for the first time and didn't see it pop up. I was on the internet jacking around and had jpg to pdf running in background to try out the give away of the day. System seemed to be running a little slow so maybe script caught it prior to it popping up.
ReplyDeleteSo stopped using the AutoHotKey method and have used the Process Lasso method for a few days. Virus definitions have been kept up to date and no pop ups. Not to mention Process Lasso has helped to keep my system stable even when running intensive programs like Avira virus scan in the background.
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