From your version # and resident behavior description, I presume you are referring to A2 AntiMalware, not to A2 Free (which is an on-demand scanner only).
There has been no version upgrade to A2 AM since 4.0 was released October 4, but there was a rather large signature file update today- about 4x the average: about 32KB. If you have not been manually updating on a daily basis, you may have accumulated a significantly larger number of signature updates. I would suggest you enable the auto-update feature. It hasn't caused me any problem.
I agree- those alerts can be annoying! To shut them off: - Open A2 and click on the Background Guard tab in the left-hand column. - In the right window that opens, click on the Surf Protection tab. You will see drop-down boxes next to the various malware that is detected, including Tracking Cookies at the top of the list. - From those drop-down boxes, you can select "Block Silently" to prevent those alerts.
It's the anti-malware program...I keep getting them mixed up. I try to manually update every day, but it must have backed up on me. And thanks for the tips on silencing the pop-ups...this program gives more alerts than the Online Armor firewall!
joe53
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October 17th, 2008 23:00
Dale:
From your version # and resident behavior description, I presume you are referring to A2 AntiMalware, not to A2 Free (which is an on-demand scanner only).
There has been no version upgrade to A2 AM since 4.0 was released October 4, but there was a rather large signature file update today- about 4x the average: about 32KB. If you have not been manually updating on a daily basis, you may have accumulated a significantly larger number of signature updates. I would suggest you enable the auto-update feature. It hasn't caused me any problem.
I agree- those alerts can be annoying! To shut them off:
- Open A2 and click on the Background Guard tab in the left-hand column.
- In the right window that opens, click on the Surf Protection tab. You will see drop-down boxes next to the various malware that is detected, including Tracking Cookies at the top of the list.
- From those drop-down boxes, you can select "Block Silently" to prevent those alerts.
dalem29
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October 17th, 2008 23:00
Thanks Joe...
It's the anti-malware program...I keep getting them mixed up. I try to manually update every day, but it must have backed up on me. And thanks for the tips on silencing the pop-ups...this program gives more alerts than the Online Armor firewall!