Hello,
I just downloaded and installed avast 4.5 Home edition. I am not familiar with this software at all (I searched for a new anti-virus because AVG's latest free version doesn't play nice with Outlook Express). I especially have to compliment the "skins", because they are simple and make the controls easy to recognize...and they are a lot simpler that even most AV programs' "simple" interface (I especially like the random skins option).
System Information:Windows XP Home w/SP2
Opera/Explorer/Navigator installed
Outlook Express (soon to try Eudor and/or Thunderbird)
31.5G hard drive with 21.6G free space
128MB RAM
Question 1:The interface was
extremely easy to use. Virus scanning took a long time, but I assume that is because it doesn't allow you to choose which drive to scan (I have one hard disk but 2 partitions), and I also chose thorough. Is there a way to skip scanning of the partition I use for backups?
Question 2:I assume there is no scheduling, beyond scheduling a boot scan, with the free version -- is that correct?
Question 3 (Error 1753):I could not open the Virus Chest, and these are the details:
[*](Errors Report)Program cannot use Chest client: (null)
-->Decsription: Virus chest server is not running. RPC communication failed.
[*](Detailed information)
Initialization of Chest files
Program will try to load all Chest files from the following server: (null)
Action was completed with errors!
[*](Error log)
Error is aswChestC:chestOpenList Error 1753.
aswChestInterface - Program error description:CChestListView::LoadFiles() chestOpenList() failed:2147422219.
aswChestInterface - Program error description: CChestListView::OnCreate() !m_strErrorWnd.isEmpty().[/list]
Thanks for your assistance!