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Other => General Topics => Topic started by: dutchkitten on November 17, 2008, 03:41:10 PM

Title: Why won't avast scan archives?
Post by: dutchkitten on November 17, 2008, 03:41:10 PM

When I scan my pc I set it to scan archives, when it is finished it says unable to scan archives. What am i doing wrong?

Title: Re: Why won't avast scan archives?
Post by: bob3160 on November 17, 2008, 03:46:49 PM

Welcome to the forum,  :)
Take a look at the following link, it should answer your question.
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=16493.msg139941#msg139941 (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=16493.msg139941#msg139941)

Title: Re: Why won't avast scan archives?
Post by: DavidR on November 17, 2008, 05:27:43 PM

You're doing nothing wrong as the link Bob gave shows there are legitimate reasons for this.

Personally I don't bother with scanning archives.

- Archive (zip, rar, etc.) files are by their nature are inert, you need to extract the files and then you have to run them to be a threat. Long before that happens avast's Standard Shield should have scanned them and before an executable is run that is scanned.

Thorough is also by its design very thorough and perhaps a little overkill for routine use, were a Standard scan without archives should be adequate.