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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: adam on August 26, 2004, 12:15:55 AM
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is a boot scan the same type of scan , as one that is performed within the avast program, provided the settings are the same. so if i do a boot scan of local disk, with archives selected, would i then need to perform a scan with the avast program? many thanks adam :)
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is a boot scan the same type of scan , as one that is performed within the avast program, provided the settings are the same. so if i do a boot scan of local disk, with archives selected, would i then need to perform a scan with the avast program? many thanks adam :)
As far I know if you select to scan archives in both boot time scanning and Home version, you will have the same detection rate. Even the Professional version will give you the same in a on-demand scanning. Professional version is able to do on-access scanning of archives which on-demand can't... ;)
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One other slight difference (between boot-time and "normal" on-demand scans) I'd questioned a week or two ago and Vlk was kind enough to confirm.
If you've set up exclusions (folders which are nothing but JPG's, for example), a boot-time thorough local-disk scan will ignore your exclusions and scan everything. That's apparently because when running the boot scan, avast doesn't yet have access to the setup info where you've defined the exclusions.
Or at least that's the case in Home, and it's a reasonable guess that the same is true in Pro also.
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Also, the boot-time scanner doesn't support so many archives as the Win32 version (the Windows GUI version). I believe only ARJ and ZIP are in fact supported...
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Vlk
Will that change in 4.5?
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Vlk
Will that change in 4.5?
It will be good :P
Why aren't these information on the help files? :(
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Will that change in 4.5?
I'm afraid it's not very likely :-\
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The help says:
"This scanner supports the following archives: ZIP, ARJ, self-extracting EXE and NTFS stream."
It is on page 'Enhanced User Interface Menu', which is probably not very good place for it.
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The help says:
"This scanner supports the following archives: ZIP, ARJ, self-extracting EXE and NTFS stream."
It is on page 'Enhanced User Interface Menu', which is probably not very good place for it.
No, I think not...
There is a specific page for the Boot time scanning (howto_simple_test_po_restartu.htm). Maybe the features of the boot time scanning including the archive scanning should be there... ;)