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- Personally, my shields are off and I am playing Portal 2. You misunderstand. None of the games are the problem, it's the steam.exe client that avast thinks is the malware.
Just tried Firefox Dev and everything returns invalid certificate issues. One possible cited cause are AV software, so I'd like to suspend Avast and see if it clears up.
Suspend/stop - not 'turn off shields', that doesn't do much - Avast is still on the menu bar and still shows up on
pgrep
. At the end of the day, I don't really care about live shields anyway - more interested in scanning downloads and the like.![Avast turn off firewall Avast turn off firewall](https://mobipicker-xukdv8yuztpzliajnm.stackpathdns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/how-to-disable-avast-on-mac.jpg)
Steam is a digital distribution service owned by Valve. Originally created to distribute its own games, Steam has since expanded to become the de facto standard for digital distribution of PC games, and supports community features, downloadable content and achievements. In the past, Avast was blocking some of the most popular software (Steam for example) for a short period of time. To be fair false-positive detection happens basically to every antivirus on the market, it’s not just Avast.
I guess I could look at system services and turn Avast off there, but is there no way to tell the app to shut down? Unusual to have such a badly behaved app on Macs.
edit: all the
launchctl
fu I tried to apply didn't work and it even re-appeared after a reboot. I think I'll have to de-install it if I want to truly stop it. Not helping my trust either with a spammy 'your system is wasting x GB storage, do you want to fix it?' popup of theirs.Avast Free Antivirus for Mac is a free antivirus program with a virus scanner, firewall, and various features that you can turn off or on. The program is free, but will request payment for some features, which means that you can’t expect everything in the features section to be free.
As far as Avast + Firefox Dev edition goes, looking at Connection is Untrusted, I saw that the user uninstalled and reinstalled to accept the Avast cert.
So... I:
Turn Off Avast For Steam Mac Games
- went to regular FF preferences searched for 'certificates' and exported the Avast cert.
- went to FF dev version and imported the cert I had just exported. Its trust only needs to identify websites.
FF Dev works now.
Steam Turn Off Notifications
Uninstalled, this whole 'can't be paused or disabled' is arrogant and annoying, especially as the main reason for wanting it was on-demand scanning of downloads, not constant running.
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