home edition and Virus Cleaner

[altar]

Does it make any sense to use both?

[igor]

Depends on what "use" really means.
Usually, you shouldn't need to use the avast! Virus Cleaner at all. Besides, if avast! resident protection detects a virus supported by the avast! Virus Cleaner, it offers you to start it.

What exactly do you want to do?

[altar]

well... I've had this trojano-247 (or still have...?)
I've run scans that found nothing with Home edition, but then found something when running a scan including the archives, plus some other files it said it could not scan...
I then found out about the Virus Cleaner, so I thought why not run a scan with that too...
But I got your point...

[whocares]

The stand-alone virusCleaner features a list with supported viruses/trojans/worms, and imho Trojan-247 is not on it..
 

--> http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_cleaner.html

In fact the stand-alone Cleaner only "CLEANS" worms and 1 "true" classic Virus
 

[igor]

There's a list of malware supported by avast! Virus Cleaner on the corresponding web page - there's no use to try it on other viruses (such as Trojano-something), it won't work.

[altar]

 :-[ah.......uh.........ok.......
But can consider I've gotten rid of that trojan if several scans of Home edition don't find it anymore?
Also, is it important to re-activate system restore, what if I leave it disabled?

[igor]

I think you can say it's gone. Of course, I suppose you have a fully updated operating system; if not and the virus explots some kind of OS vulnerability, it may come back later.

It's up to you to re-activate the system restore... some people find this feature useful, the others useless. Decide

[SUSZANNAH]

After I had a virus I left system restore disabled as for some reason it had 42000 files in it, used to take ages to do scan, I certainly would not use it again