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Avast Antivirus downloading data from net even when told not to update

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Mar 15, 20264372 views
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This is a strange problem that I have never seen before. I have two machines, both running Win 7 and running the latest version of Avast, both seem to be downloading large amounts of data. I noticed it when we were using more data for our monthly limit then normal, 2gb+ in a couple of days when rea…

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Fix for: Avast Antivirus downloading data from net even when told not to update

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I'm pretty sure the traffic is not being caused by updates. It happening because avastsvc acts as a kind of proxy in order to block harmful web content - so most normal traffic will be shown under Avast instead. See very similar question here, answe…

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