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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: REDACTED on January 02, 2017, 10:30:48 PM
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Im in a habit of when i download a file from the internet, or if somone sends me an email attachment to save it to my downloads folder and then use Avast to do a custom scan on the file.
I noticed that Avast has a file scanner, is the file scanner live, eg. if i open a file will it scan the file before opening / running it ? Or as soon as its finished downloading, Thus negating my custom scan workflow that i currently do ?
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OSX - 10.10.5
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Yes, you can test with EICAR test file
EICAR info > http://www.eicar.org/86-0-intended-use.html
EICAR test file > http://www.eicar.org/85-0-Download.html