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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: Vectorspace on August 20, 2004, 02:36:48 PM
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I know that the VRDB collects information on changes that are made to files, to aid in repairing infected ones. I know that by default it updates the database every 3 weeks, and that it monitors files three versions back.
However, I cannot find any info on which files the VRDB looks at!
Can ayone help?
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Mostly any executable files.
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I see, thanks
Is there a log of the files its monitoring? Something I can read?
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I'm afraid it isn't. No log, no list.
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Just out of curiosity, I was discussing this with Rejzor awhile ago and he didn't know.
When you run a VRDB scan, does it scan for infected exe? What if the VRDB I'm creating is infected?
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Infected files are not included into VRDB. :)
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So, it scans a file before adding/updating it to the VRDB?
And just to clarify, its any exe file it can find? Also, you said "Mostly any executable files".
What other files does it archive?
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I mean - it's storing executable files only.
I'm not completely sure if it's really all of them, or just those with common extensions (exe, dll, etc.) - I'd have to check the source code thoroughly.
And yes, the files are scanned before creating/updating their VRDB records.
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There're files with dos or windows execuatble header, so all EXE/DLL/SCR/VxD/SYS/... files