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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: djDave on April 26, 2009, 02:48:18 PM
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In my scans I get a whole page of (can not scan, password protected) files, I never used to get these ! Does anyone know what's up with this, and what I can do to get all of them scaned ? thanks much ... dave
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You can't get them scaned because there password protected. If you want to scan those files, then un-password protect them.
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I have not password protected anything since my last scan, and it did not have a bunch like this.. Is there somewhere I can remove all passwords from protected files ? I have never password protected any file...Thanks again
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I have not password protected anything since my last scan, and it did not have a bunch like this.. Is there somewhere I can remove all passwords from protected files ? I have never password protected any file...Thanks again
Did you download any "password protected" files?
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Not that I know of, I have not needed a password for anything except my yahoo e-mail and IM..
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Hi djDave!
it can also be that you installed any software which contains password-protected files...
it hasn't to be encoded by you...
I wouldn't worry about this files, but if you want you can do a scan with additional software like
SAS (http://www.superantispyware.com/) or MBAM (http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php).
yours
onlysomeone
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Many programs password protect their files for legitimate reasons (usually security programs). For example Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy, and avast can't scan those files, as avast don't know the password.
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That may be it, I run Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy, but I have for several years, and this is the first I've noticed all the unable to scan thing..thanks much..
I just read some about SAS, thankyou, will it conflict with my avast ? By the way I love Avast and have turned many (all) of my friends on to it...thanks again... dave
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I just read some about SAS, thankyou, will it conflict with my avast ? By the way I love Avast and have turned many (all) of my friends on
I don't think that there are any conflicts or problems that should appear when using Avast and SAS...
but probably someone else can confirm this... :)
By the way I love Avast and have turned many (all) of my friends on
thats nice to hear ;)
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In my scans I get a whole page of (can not scan, password protected) files, I never used to get these ! Does anyone know what's up with this, and what I can do to get all of them scaned ? thanks much ... dave
See http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=35347.msg297170#msg297170 (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=35347.msg297170#msg297170) this topic for more information on why files can't be scanned.
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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Thanks so much everyone, I did a boot scan, and all is fine....thanks again..dave
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Its happaned me yesterday i tried to open a .exe on the zip protected but before i do it avast! sayed that its was a trojan so that a way that avast! is scanning everything that you use or load.....