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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: sevenblu on June 21, 2004, 04:47:07 PM

Title: Use AntiVirus Program
Post by: sevenblu on June 21, 2004, 04:47:07 PM

I am using iMesh and in the option menu, it says... use AntiVirus Program...  I am suppose to open explorer and chose the prog I want to use...  

Does avast automatically work with iMesh or should I add the prog in the options menu...

For future reference, what is the prog I should be using...

I know it's in this folder:

C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4

But there are a lot of progs and files in this folder, which is the correct one?

Title: Re:Use AntiVirus Program
Post by: igor on June 21, 2004, 04:56:20 PM

It's ashQuick.exe

Title: Re:Use AntiVirus Program
Post by: sevenblu on June 21, 2004, 05:01:03 PM

What are all those others...

Should I only use ashquick for P2P or for ALL progs that want me to choose the use Antivirus option?

Title: Re:Use AntiVirus Program
Post by: igor on June 21, 2004, 05:04:55 PM

ashQuick is the "Explorer Extension" module that scans the file passed on the command-line. So, you can use it for any application that asks for such a tool.
On the other hand, you can use the internal functions of avast! itself - e.g. the P2P Shield; when it's employed, there shouldn't be any need to specify the antivirus in the application (you would be scanning the same file twice).