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Avast Antivirus and the NICEIC Update Application (v1)
This article refers to NICEIC Cert Software V1 (2008-2018).
If you have Avast antivirus, you may experience a problem when trying to update the NICEIC Software.
This problem is down to Avast flagging our update application as a virus and removing the file. We have raised this with Avast and are hoping to get this resolved as quickly as possible as this file does not contain a virus. But for the time being here are a few things you can amend within Avast to stop the NICEIC Software being seen as a virus.
First, open your Avast antivirus software and go to settings > general.
Find the exclusions tab.
Add the below files to the exclusion list.
- C:\Program Files (x86)\NICEIC\Certification\cert2008.exe (NICEIC Main Application)
- C:\Program Files (x86)\NICEIC\Certification\clupdate.exe (NICEIC Update Application)
Click OK and exit Avast.
You will also need to exclude some websites as well.
First, open your Avast antivirus software and go to settings > general.
Find and click on the exclusions tab, then click on the URL’s tab.
Add the below URL’s to the exclusion list.
- http://updates.clikregistration.com
- http://updates.cliksoftware.com
Click OK and exit Avast.
Once Clik has been added to the exclusion list this should stop any issues when opening or updating the NICEIC Software
