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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: cousindave on April 17, 2004, 04:34:47 PM

Title: Firefox & Avast
Post by: cousindave on April 17, 2004, 04:34:47 PM

Hi all,
Does Avast scan Firefox like it does IE? ???
As I cruise around using Firefox I notice the Avast icon does not spin.
Thanks in advance,Dave

Title: Re:Firefox & Avast
Post by: shgoh on April 17, 2004, 04:52:27 PM

avast resident scanner doesn't scan until you download files & execute them...even for IE

if you use a download manager...you can take a look at this thread..
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=3808;start=msg27520#msg27520

furthermore you can customise your resident scanner to detect virus in archives before downloading them..
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=3202;start=15

hope this helps