Author Topic: What is the point of the meory scan?  (Read 2222 times)

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What is the point of the meory scan?
« on: 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?
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2006, 07:12:09 PM »
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?
« Reply #2 on: 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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