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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: amzolt on April 18, 2012, 06:19:26 PM
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I'm using Avast Free 7.0.1426.
I've seen posts about Avast throwing error 3 for old virus definitions but I'm getting the error in the areas shown in the attached screen capture...
It happens in full and quick scan.
What's up with this?
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files that can not be found errors are usually gone if you reboot and scan again
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files that can not be found errors are usually gone if you reboot and scan again
This has been going on for months...
Many reboots, many rescans..............
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the same files....if you reboot now and scan again same result ?
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The links on your system partition point to a wrong drive, probably due to some strange way of installing Windows.
You can disable the option "Follow links during scan" on the "Sensitivity" page of the particular scan - avast! won't try to resolve the links, and won't show these errors anymore.
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the same files....if you reboot now and scan again same result ?
yes
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The links on your system partition point to a wrong drive, probably due to some strange way of installing Windows.
You can disable the option "Follow links during scan" on the "Sensitivity" page of the particular scan - avast! won't try to resolve the links, and won't show these errors anymore.
Thanks, I will try that.
Does doing that limit the search for viruses??
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Not really.
The options is there mainly for the convenience - that if you e.g. rightclick on C:\Documents and Settings (in a file manager that shows it) and choose to scan it, the target (C:\Users in this case) is scanned, instead of scanning nothing.
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Not really.
The options is there mainly for the convenience - that if you e.g. rightclick on C:\Documents and Settings (in a file manager that shows it) and choose to scan it, the target (C:\Users in this case) is scanned, instead of scanning nothing.
Great :-)
Thanks, igor!