Hi,
After installing avast home, I wanted to test it.
So, I installed the test virus of eicar (
http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm).
It was not detected by the permanet shield, of which I adapted the settings to scan opened files, then it detected the test virus immediately. OK
Then I started a full scan manually, and the test virus was detected again, but this stopped the process:
1) question, how do I just get a report or automatically quarantine the contaminated file without stoppong the scan?
After the scan, I tried to view the log (log viewer), and it appeared empty, although the "setup and update" part is plenty of messages
2) question, is it normal that the log viewer "program run" is empty in the home edition?
I also found a HUGE log "simple user interface.txt" at the place I configured it to be, but this one is too big.
3) question, how to filter and only record files with problems to that log? I used a perl script to remove the OK and skipped because settings, and got 11k instead of 240 MEGA :-(
see joined script
I noticed that some files could not be scanned, because of a permission denied, do I have to run the scan as administrator?
5) question how to schedule the scanning every night?
As soon as at least question 1 is answered, I can schedule the scanning in windows task scheduler (what when it promps at the end?),.
Then I will recommend avast as a good home antivirus solution.
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