Again: Why doesn't Avast! 4 H. E. Detect a test virus sent from a web page?

[whocares]

my Login wouldn't give an option to log on as Administrator (Ctl+Alt+Del, usual break to administrator),

Hi,

I don't know how it is with XP Pro; on XP HE you can only reach the real "Administrator" by booting in safeMode (F8-Boot) for the 1st time.
Afterwards, it should be available via normal boot or logoff/login

In Win2000 (since SP2/SP4 ?) there are subtle, but mean differences between adminUser and the one-and-only, REAL "Administrator" concerning what they can or can't do.
Maybe also in XP ?

what changes exactly did you do/customize ? maybe avast recognized those as identical to "HIGH" security,  and thus kept the slider there..



 

[DavidR]

Hi,

I don't know how it is with XP Pro; on XP HE you can only reach the real "Administrator" by booting in safeMode (F8-Boot) for the 1st time.
Afterwards, it should be available via normal boot or logoff/login
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what changes exactly did you do/customize ? maybe avast recognized those as identical to "HIGH" security,  and thus kept the slider there..

XP Pro lets you use the clasic (win2000 style) login where you input your user (administrator) and password. You use Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up that login screen rather than click on a users image and enter the password.

The main changes were:
Scanner Advanced, Scan created/modified and default extension set.
Blocker, ticked all Opening, Renaming, Deleting & Formatting - Changed Allow to Deny the operation.

Those settings remain unchanged when I enter customised but the slider reverts to High.  

[RejZoR]

Hi DavidR,

@RejZor: avast intercepts all 3 tests under Netscape 7.02, too (which has the mozilla engine); but of course you need avast set to scan files on create

 

Well Mozilla uses Netscapes engine not vice versa
Also i don't get any alerts in Opera/Mozilla and i have sensitivity set to High (scan files on open/create/modify/copy itd...)

[shgoh]

what changes exactly did you do/customize ? maybe avast recognized those as identical to "HIGH" security,  and thus kept the slider there..

maybe ...i think i saw similar posts regarding this problem...but just couldn't find it

Also i don't get any alerts in Opera/Mozilla and i have sensitivity set to High (scan files on open/create/modify/copy itd...)

i can verify this :'(

[whocares]

Also i don't get any alerts in Opera/Mozilla and i have sensitivity set to High (scan files on open/create/modify/copy itd...)

Oops, sorry, you're right, it was some other AV which detected them under Netscape

at home (avast) I could only get IE to even show the test buttons

[bob3160]

Netscape is part of AOL

[shgoh]

Netscape is part of AOL

yes...sad but true :'(...i used to be a netscape supporter...not anymore..

[DavidR]

my Login wouldn't give an option to log on as Administrator (Ctl+Alt+Del, usual break to administrator),

I don't know how it is with XP Pro; on XP HE you can only reach the real "Administrator" by booting in safeMode (F8-Boot) for the 1st time.
Afterwards, it should be available via normal boot or logoff/login

In Win2000 (since SP2/SP4 ?) there are subtle, but mean differences between adminUser and the one-and-only, REAL "Administrator" concerning what they can or can't do.
Maybe also in XP ?

I was able, after a reboot, to log on as administrator, simply by Ctrl+Alt+Del (twice) this breaks out to clasic login and enabled me to login as administrator.

what changes exactly did you do/customize ? maybe avast recognized those as identical to "HIGH" security,  and thus kept the slider there..

It took some doing to make custom stick even as administrator, in effect I had to virtually sellect most of the advanced options. The thing that I beleive made it stick was in Scanner Advance to scan all files. From here I was able to reboot and login as User and the settings had stuck.

I did try to adjust some of the settings in customise and it reverted to High again and I had to repeat the above exercise again, weird when I have administrator privileges.

Hopefully that's the end of it but I now knw how to sort it if it happens again (administrator).

Thanks to all for your assistance and time.

David

[4u1e]

A final thought re customising settings - I find the customised settings don't (necessarily) stick unless I terminate and then restart the provider.  (My specific problem was in turning the 'message clean' tags on and off.)

I'm on win95 and v4.1.342, so this may not apply to newer stuff.

[DavidR]

I think that this is probably a very good piece of advice, since I remember when I terminated the providers/services I didn't use, I remember something about setting being saved for when/if you restart the provided later.

The trick is getting the custom to stick first, because if it reverts to high when you exit customise any termination settings would be for High (the reverted level).

[shgoh]

davidr..u can removed unused providers in avast...go to add/remove programs...avast...change

[DavidR]

Shgoh, Thanks for that, I wasn't aware of the selective uninstall of providers, very handy.

I will leave it for the moment until I get a little more experienced with the overall avast package, settings of the different providers, etc. and then uninstall those I will definitely not be using Outlook for one and probably P2P.