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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: cerberus6666 on June 09, 2008, 08:28:41 PM
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Yes i have had this program for awhile and love it..but i have noticed over time more and more file son my PC either wont be scanned by avast or are corrupted..nothing really happens to my PC..I'm only one who uses it and kinda strict on whats on my PC lol..but everytime i do my scan well now its around 106 files wont delete,move,repair, or anything else cause it says there corrupted..its growing slowly though and I'm curious if anyone knows how to help me with this problem..the files that are corrupted are around my system volume files
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There really is nothing to worry about corrupt may only mean avast can't unpack it fully and reports corrupt. There is nothing you can do about that if they did happen to be corrupt, you still couldn't do anything about it.
Many programs (usually security based ones) password protect their files for legitimate reasons such as AdAware and Spybot Search & Destroy, there are others (and avast doesn't know the password or have any way of using it even if it did know it).
When you run scans with the above programs and you delete harmful entries that they detect, a copy is kept (in quarantine/restore/backup) in case you need to reverse what you did. These are usually password protected, you should do some housekeeping and delete old backup/recovery/quarantine entries (older than two weeks or so), this will reduce the numbers of files that can't be scanned.
By examining 1) the reason given by avast! for not being able to scan the files, 2) the location of the files, you can get an idea of what program they relate to. You may need to expand the column headings to see all the text. If you can give some examples of those file names, the locations and reason given why it can't be scanned might help us further ?
Files that can't be scanned are just that, not an indication they are suspicious/infected, just unable to be scanned.
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oh ok thank you...i was worried for a bit..strange though only password stuff on my pc beside login into my user ( i have a xp) is my chat logs and there cleared out every week or so...but i shall do some deep cleaning and i hope it fixes this up this problem :)
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So you don't have Spybot, or AdAware (or similar)?
The System Volume files are password protected (packed) by Windows itself, I believe,
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No problem, glad I could help.
If you have any more questions, just ask.
Welcome to the forums.
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It seems to me like alot of this is happening lately ??? I don't remember so many people asking about files that Avast can't scan. Could it be a problem with Avast? Seems to me like it is a common occurrence, that I don't recall happening as often before.
Liz
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Nothing wrong in avast, you have look at the reason given by avast for not being able to scan it/them against their location and file name as there are many legitimate reasons why files cant be scanned and that is the same for all AVs.
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oh no i dont got spybot anymore..ever since they redone there site so u got to pay for the sob program now i got rid of it lol..and i cant find a decent adware program...they one i got right now its to weak..its ad-aware but i need a free edition which will work good...all these trial ones of course stinks lol...and i just did some cleaning and re-scanned my pc..got over 258 files curropted..i manage to kill most of them down to 108..but still that number is slowly climbing..
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Read Tech's answer at post 2 again. There is no reason to worry about files reported by Avast as corrupted. Don't go deleting them, unless you're absolutely sure you don't need them. Very important.
Spybot S&D is free. You don't have to pay for it. (You may donate :)) What ever you are looking at is not Spybot, if it's demanding money. (The first Google hit for Spybot is actually for SpywareBot, a rogue. Don't download it.)
Good replacements for the rather average AdAware include Superantispyware, MBAM, and Asquared.
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ohi kow not to go deleting those important files..just clearing history and stuff like that...the spybot s&d i heard before that you can only get so many updates before u had to start pay for it..buti guess not lol..well ok i go spybot agian and i shall see what all happens
Hmm i have noticed theres alot of people askign questions..i just hope those problems odont come to me lol..well least if they do the answers will already be down lol
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Just a curiosity... why do people call advast instead of avast?
I see this mistake a lot of times...
Maybe it comes from ad-aware?
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lol ya i never really noticed that but thats true lol its werid but oh well least we all know what we talkin about
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lol ya i never really noticed that but thats true lol its werid but oh well least we all know what we talkin about
Never mind... advast here is avast ;D
We understand each other ;)
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Just a curiosity... why do people call advast instead of avast?
I see this mistake a lot of times...
Maybe it comes from ad-aware?
The similarity to ad-aware seems like a possibility. Also maybe more commonly used or commonly heard words in the English language begin with "adv." Advantage, advise, advertise, advance, adverb, adjective, and advent are a few that come to mind. I can't think of as many common or often-used words beginning with "av." Average and avenue--average is used maybe more often, but it is outnumbered. I could be wrong, but I think I notice more words beginning with "adv." Or maybe it is just easier to type "adv."
And the most important thing is that we understand each other. :)
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u smarta** lol
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oh no i dont got spybot anymore..ever since they redone there site so u got to pay for the sob program now i got rid of it lol..and i cant find a decent adware program...they one i got right now its to weak..its ad-aware but i need a free edition which will work good...all these trial ones of course stinks lol...and i just did some cleaning and re-scanned my pc..got over 258 files curropted..i manage to kill most of them down to 108..but still that number is slowly climbing..
Spybot S&D is still free, they just ask for a voluntary donation if you want to give.
http://www.spybot.info/en/download/index.html (http://www.spybot.info/en/download/index.html)
Another one I use is SUPERAntiSpyware
http://www.superantispyware.com/ (http://www.superantispyware.com/)
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super antispyware...hows that..never really heard of it before
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super antispyware...hows that..never really heard of it before
SuperAntispyware is a good on-demand scanner.
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Superantispyware is well regarded amongst most. Very active development, helpful developers with a good forum, frequent updates. It's not too far fetched to say that it's amongst the top antimalware scanners, for detection, cleaning, ease of use, and help. (The Avast of antispywares. ;))
Paid (resident) and free (demand) versions available.
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super antispyware...hows that..never really heard of it before
You're not reading avast forums recently ;)
It's a good antispyware for on-demand scanning.