SafeOnline and Avast's Web Shield

Those members running Avast and Prevx ; do you enable both the web HTTP shield of Avast and SafeOnline?

To Joe; would you recommend disabling one of them or in your opinion would they complement each other?

 

Provided there aren't any physical level clashes (and I'm unaware of any), I think they will probably be good complements to each other and always recommend a "defense in layers" approach

 

Thanks.

 

Avast Web Shield and Prevx Safe Online run fine on my box, however when I specifically ask Avast to scan my computer it switches off Safe Online (Green Tag becomes Blue Tag). A reboot resolves the problem and everything is fine again.

 

Had some browser freezers with this combination over the last week; uninstalled the Avast web-shield and all fine now.

 

Could you send a scan log to report@prevxresearch.com? In the event it is due to a clash between the two, it may be fixable from our database.

Thanks!

 

Scan log sent, Joe.

 

Thanks for the log I've fixed a handful of possible areas where Avast+SafeOnline could have been clashing. If you run another Prevx scan, it should work better together now

Let me know if you find anything else!

 

Joe, the log sent was when I had Avast listed in the Overrides.

Do you want another log file with Avast taken out?

 

No, that's fine Prevx still scans the files, it just doesn't report them/send them to the database but they are included in the log.

 

I haven't had any issues, but I keep Avast Web Shield set at normal and Prevx settings at default. I also keep Avast updated, esp. with all their recent issues and they have been putting out a lot of updates recently.