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What is the point of the meory scan?
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lilrayray
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What is the point of the meory scan?
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August 26, 2006, 06:57:09 PM »
Is the memory scan nessecary? What exactly does it do? An explenation would be appreciated.
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Re: What is the point of the meory scan?
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There are many viruses that load their code into memory so when avast scans memory if it finds a virus it will notify you and suggest you run a boot-time scan to try and deal with it before windows starts and the main virus loads it into memory.
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Re: What is the point of the meory scan?
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August 26, 2006, 07:15:05 PM »
Memory scans can detect 'active' infection. Active virus are, generally, more difficult to remove than the non-active ones.
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