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What is HTTPS scanning in Avast Antivirus?
HTTPS scanning is a feature of Web Shield in Avast Antivirus and is automatically enabled when Avast is installed. HTTPS scanning decrypts and scans encrypted traffic to detect potential mawlare contained on sites using HTTPS connections.
What is HTTPS?
HTTPS (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure) is a more secure version of the standard HTTP connection. HTTPS adds encryption which prevents others from eavesdropping, and helps ensure that you are connected to the intended server.
For detailed information about HTTPS, refer to the wikipedia page below:
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What is the benefit of HTTPS scanning?
While an HTTPS connection ensures that the connection can not be modified by anyone else, it does not guarantee that the content contained on the site is clean. Malware scripts and binaries can be placed into an HTTPS page that appears to be safe. The HTTPS scanning feature prevents you from downloading malicious content from sites secured with an HTTPS connection onto your PC.
Is the HTTPS connection still secure when Avast scans it?
When the Web Shield in Avast Antivirus scans the HTTPS connection, the data being scanned remains encrypted and secure. While HTTPS scanning is in effect, the Web Shield and your browser are on the same PC.
Is all my web traffic sent to the Avast servers?
No, all scanning occurs locally on your PC during the HTTPS connection. No one outside of your PC can read or decipher the connection.
Does Avast scan all HTTPS connections?
When HTTPS scanning is enabled, Avast scans all HTTPS connections for potential malware except for verified sites which have been added to our whitelist. This list primarily contains banking sites. If your bank is not on this list, or you want to exclude a certain site from HTTPS scanning, you can verify the site's security certificate and submit it via email to banks-whitelist@avast.com.
Alternatively, you can disable the HTTPS scanning feature.
How do I disable HTTPS scanning?
While it is recommended to keep HTTPS scanning enabled, you can disable the feature.
- Open the Avast user interface and select
☰Menu ▸ Settings ▸ Protection ▸ Core Shields. - Scroll down to Configure shield settings, click the Web Shield tab.
- Untick the box next to Enable HTTPS scanning.
For detailed instructions, read the following article:
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Security companies such as AVG, Kaspersky or Avast release new versions of their products each year to the public. The updates do introduce new features from time to time and may also change the interface of the program as well.
Avast released its 2015 lineup recently and one of the new features that all of its antivirus programs ship with is HTTPS Scanning.
It enables the program to detect and decrypt protected traffic using its web filtering component. This alone is highly problematic considering that the program is tapping right into protected data streams but the current implementation is causing all kinds of issues on top of that.
Update: An update to the most recent version of Avast or Firefox seems to resolve the issue.
Firefox users for example may notice that the browser won't close anymore because of Avast's HTTPS Scanning feature. This may not happen all the time when Firefox is closed but users reported that it is happening frequently.
That's however not the only issue that Firefox users may experience if Avast is installed on the computer system the browser is running on.
Firefox's add-on update check may be blocked by the security software as well.
The Mozilla Firefox web browser is not the only program that is affected by issues though. Spotify's Web Player may not be able to connect to Spotify for example with Avast 2015 running on the system.
Users who experience issues after installing the latest version of Avast 2015 have two options:
- Disable HTTPS Scanning.
- Uninstall Avast completely.
It is thankfully pretty easy to disable HTTPS Scanning in the application.
- Open the Avast dashboard on the affected system.
- Select Settings from the left sidebar menu.
- Switch to Active Protection.
- Click on Customize next to Web Shield.
- Uncheck the 'Enable HTTPS Scanning' option and click ok.
This turns off the feature in Avast and problems that you have experienced should be a thing of the past.
There is no option to turn off the HTTPS Scanning feature in Avast during installation. While you can disable the Web Shield during installation, it impacts more than just HTTPS scanning and is generally not recommended. (thanks Sören)