Standard Shield: Scan executed programs

[satyr]

Hello all after some time. I have only one straight-forward question this time: what would happen (i.e. how would Avast! handle this) if the "Scan executed programs" checkbox would be checked but all the three others below it (i.e. "32-bit/64-bit Windows (Win32/Win64) executables", "16-bit Windows executables", and "MS-DOS based programs") un-checked?!

I mean, obviously the first checkbox generally sets/unsets (or rather enables/disables) scanning of executed programs, while the other three checkboxes just specifiy in detail which type of executables to check. However, if all the three are un-checked, which category (of programs/executables) remains to be scanned, or in other words, isn't it that these three categories contain all possible/existing types of executable programs??

/EDIT: Oh sorry, now I see that I already asked this same question (there were two questions in total) in the "Avast: few questions in regard to Standard Shield's settings" thread, but anyway, DavidR who relpied to my post didn't provide an answer to it.

Thanks for any reply, satyr

[DavidR]

I would say it would only leave .com files to be scanned, but they are aren't strictly programs, so I don't know. But this could be playing on semantics as I don't know what is meant by 32-bit/64-bit Windows (Win32/Win64) executables, if it is literal as in Windows System files or all .exe files on Windows systems (which is the more likely).

All I do know it would be somewhat crazy to uncheck all three, especially the 32-bit/64-bit Windows (Win32/Win64) executables.

[satyr]

All I do know it would be somewhat crazy to uncheck all three, especially the 32-bit/64-bit Windows (Win32/Win64) executables.

Yes, you're off course right about that - , it's only a theoretical question (in fact, I was wondering why after you uncheck all these three checkboxes the whole section doesn't become "greyed-out" as I would expect and as I've seen in other programs where such settings exist), and again, thanks for the reply!!

[DavidR]

You're welcome.

Like many configurable options like this disabling the mail option disables all sub-options, but disabling the sub-options doesn't automatically disable the main option.