Ah...come on! There has been a lot of discussion on this board about removing Ignore option in ver 5. You know as well as I do that Ignore is NOT the same as Block.
I need an Ignore choice. Simple as that. I uninstalled Avast and when asked for feedback I said it was because you removed Ignore from version 5.
This is simply not true.
No functionality was removed from avast 5 with respect to this.
The only change that took place was that the option IGNORE in v4.8 was
RENAMED to BLOCK.
There was no real "Ignore" option in v4.x (meaning that avast would allow you to execute a file that it thinks is infected), and there is none in v5.
I said I was going back to Avira 9 if I can find a download for it because (warts and all) Avira has an ignore choice. I still have Avira 8 on my host XP Pro machine and I have used ignore a lot over the 3 plus years I have had Avira.
In case avast, real Ignore is accomplished by adding to the exclusion list (of course, with the possibility of infecting your system unless used with caution).
You ignored my other question (about actions when a virus is found in an archive) which relates to the same subject:
There's no difference between ordinary and archived files. If you have avast set to Ask, you can choose any action you want (or no action by means of the BLOCK button).
can Avast users actually configure Avast as they want it? The answer for ver 5 is NO. It is a sad situation today in that most AV vendors now ignore the needs of "power" users. Maybe the solution would be two versions - one for average users and one for power users.
I'm still confused - what exactly is the feature you need, and is missing from avast?
Vlk