Author Topic: New member and new to Avast.  (Read 7464 times)

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rich424

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Re: New member and new to Avast.
« Reply #15 on: January 21, 2009, 05:42:22 PM »
Will do. I am running another through scan now.

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Re: New member and new to Avast.
« Reply #16 on: January 21, 2009, 05:54:57 PM »
Im sorry guys but the log file does not have anything in the warning file for today. I dont know. It did say to ignore it. Im sorry I did not retain more information when it happend. After this weekend fighting all the trojans I kinda freaked out a little.

If it said to ignore it then it wasn't a standard scan, but likely to be the anti-rootkit scan that takes place 8 minutes after boot, this normally give two options Ignore and Delete and avast gives a recommended course of action. You should allow avast to send a sample for analysis (the default setting).

This heuristic style scan doesn't log entries in the warning section like normal scans, but in the C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\DATA\log\aswAr.log file (you can view with notepad), this is overwritten on the next anti-rootkit scan.

You would have to be fast off the mark to be downloading or updating MBAM at that point though. So I don't really know if this is exactly what you saw.
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Re: New member and new to Avast.
« Reply #17 on: January 21, 2009, 07:47:59 PM »

There is another program, "Ad-aware Free Anniversary Edition," that also provides realtime protection but having not used it, I can't comment on any of its attributes... 

Sadly Ad-Aware is way behind the times and just takes up hard drive space and valuable RAM.

Stick with Malwarebytes MBAM but only run the Quick scan as it finds 99.9% of the infections and the Full scan should only be ran if reqested.

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Re: New member and new to Avast.
« Reply #18 on: January 21, 2009, 08:39:49 PM »
Yeah, Ad-Aware used to be great, but they're falling quickly.  I haven't tried the new version, which supposedly gives you realtime scanning for free, but I still doubt its effectiveness.
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