Can you fix this problem?

[Light Archangel]

Well done for the new Avast 5!!   but i found a problem  
Downloading the eicar test
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
and creating a Notepad with the eicar test With extension ".com" (in my desktop)
Avast detected very well and blocked, But after that shows a window saying "Avast has detected a Virus in the operating memory" and ask me to make the boot scan!!  

Then i made it, no infection was found.
I tried again with the eicar test and again the Window saying "Avast has detected a Virus in the operating memory" when minutes before was finished the boot scan  

Please, fix this problem, other users can think that really they have a virus in the operating memory every time that the File system shield detect something!!  

And please make all the fixes in the products in others languages too, i speak spanish and all Latinoamericans too!!  

Give a try making the eicar.com test file in your desktop and closing the notification of "MALWARE BLOCKED..."

Muchisimas gracias por hacer de Avast tan buen antivirus  

[Torriceli]

Same here.Please do something about this.

[Shiw Liang]

It should be a bugs in detecting the file in a wrong directory and maybe also a FP
Vlk please try to see the problem and correct it in the next update if possible please

[schmidthouse]

The same "operating memory" warning appeared for me as well (Avast v.5.0.377.Release)
I have been ignoring the warning assuming this must Be a glitch!!
Also, as mentioned on a earlier post during beta runs....... Avast is not "EXCLUDING" a single file.(apparently avast on excludes Folders and then writing in exception on the single file is required...too much hassle and requires a certain level of computer knowledge many people don't have.
Can this also be picked up??

[Defiance]

Yep ! Same problem here too. After detecting and blocking eicar.com file avast prmpts me to pefrom a full boot time scan since a virus was found active in the memory. This pop up also appears after having completed the quick scan and detected eicar or a false positive again in the results.

[Light Archangel]

This only occurs with the eicar test and FP's or in real virus infections too?
 

And other thing: When you Right-Clic the icon in the taskbar and select "Show last popup message" is the same thing!!  

Please correct this...  

[jaikrishna]

NO, it happened for me too.
I made a quick scan and avast found a virus in system restore folder.
In a minute or so the message appeared.
This is too bad and needs to be solved soon

[Torriceli]

This problem is still here and no answer for anybody.Hellooooooooooooooooooo............

[Light Archangel]

Avast is very good, And i hope that this little problems can be corrected 

[DavidR]

When you created this eicar file, I believe that what you were working on, e.g. the eicar string and document were in memory, triggering the suggested boot-time scan as a result of the detection on the newly created file.

I have had that when other things have been detected (before I excluded my samples folder) and I know for a fact that at the time there was nothing running in memory other than what avast may have put their. So I too believe this to be a bug, which I hope will be quickly squashed.

[Defiance]

DavidR: I did not created my eicar file. Just had it in a folder for future detections and possible testing of antivirus engines.
The file was certainly not active into memory. This probably is a bug. The same applies here for the potentially unwanted files even when they are not loaded into memory.

[DavidR]

Your comment in the first post reads differently to me then.

and creating a Notepad with the eicar test With extension ".com" (in my desktop)

In any case there is a likelihood that it was still in memory, being in memory and active in memory I don't believe makes any difference to avast if it scans RAM.

I'm not sure even if there is a difference in windows either, you can load stuff into RAM in preparation for use, to speed processes, etc. but I don't think there is a distinction between in (loaded) or active (in use).

As I said, I feel it is a possible bug as I hadn't loaded any of my samples into RAM. They were dormant in a folder, detected by an on-demand scan. So any relationship to there being in memory would be if avast's scan in scanning them somehow loaded them.

[lister]

Downloading the eicar.com triggered the 'operating in memory' for me. the text sstring was never in the clipboard and I never tried to run the file.

Plus the notification was hidden by another window; if this was a virus, surely it should stay on top of all other windows?

[DavidR]

I think that they are meant to stay on top, but I guess it would depend on what the other window was. If that were stay on top, like task manager, etc. only one could be on top.

[lister]

Well, the other windows open were the avast interface and a Windows Explorer window.