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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: jcoltrane on April 08, 2011, 02:48:32 AM

Title: "error: the system cannot find the path specified" errors in full scan log
Post by: jcoltrane on April 08, 2011, 02:48:32 AM

The overall comment on the scan is "some files could not be scanned". THis is with AVAST 6.0.1000 free. THe log contains 6 lines:
c:\program files\alwil software\avast5\defs\11040701\alfo.dll "error: the system cannot find the path specified"
c:\program files\alwil software\avast5\defs\11040701\aswcmnbs.dll "error: the system cannot find the path specified"
c:\program files\alwil software\avast5\defs\11040701\aswcmnis.dll "error: the system cannot find the path specified"
c:\program files\alwil software\avast5\defs\11040701\aswcmnos.dll"error: the system cannot find the path specified"
c:\program files\alwil software\avast5\defs\11040701\aswengin.dll "error: the system cannot find the path specified"
c:\program files\alwil software\avast5\defs\11040701\aswscan.dll"error: the system cannot find the path specified"

I have never seen this in the past. Please help me out as to why this occurred and what it means?

Title: Re: "error: the system cannot find the path specified" errors in full scan log
Post by: DavidR on April 08, 2011, 02:54:52 AM

- Nothing to worry about, those are old virus definitions folders and avast is doing some housecleaning to keep the size used on the hard disk to a minimum. This just happens to have occurred between the time you started the scan and it reaching that old defs folder.