dcpurton / regfont

A simple application to temporarily register or unregister fonts under Microsoft® Windows® 2000 and above.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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regfont hangs when using Avast! Antivirus with DeepScreen enaled #2

Open dcpurton opened 8 years ago

dcpurton commented 8 years ago

According to Avast, DeepScreen is an advanced technology for running “unknown” applications inside the safe environment. It helps to determine whether the file is malicious or not. It has been introduced in Avast 2014 and it continues to exists in Avast 2015 and 2016.

It scans files when they first run in a sandbox. Unfortunately, it causes regfont to hang.

You can work around this by adding regfont.exe to the exclusions list in Avast.