[Solved - Settings Issue] Context menu scan doesn't work

[spg SCOTT]

A clue maybe, nothing is reported as being scanned. I enabled everything to be reported and get this:

A few scans, of the files that should be detected and one of them (last) was a random image on the desktop.

From what I can tell, it is not scanning any files.

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* avast! Scan Report
* This file is generated automatically
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* Scan name: Scan from Windows Explorer
* Started on: Sunday, May 15, 2011 11:27:03 AM
* VPS: 110515-0, 15/05/2011
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Infected files: 0
Total files: 0
Total folders: 1
Total size: 0.0 B

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* Scan stopped: Sunday, May 15, 2011 11:27:03 AM
* Run-time was 0 second(s)
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* avast! Scan Report
* This file is generated automatically
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* Scan name: Scan from Windows Explorer
* Started on: Sunday, May 15, 2011 11:28:10 AM
* VPS: 110515-0, 15/05/2011
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Infected files: 0
Total files: 0
Total folders: 1
Total size: 0.0 B

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* Scan stopped: Sunday, May 15, 2011 11:28:10 AM
* Run-time was 0 second(s)
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* avast! Scan Report
* This file is generated automatically
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* Scan name: Scan from Windows Explorer
* Started on: Sunday, May 15, 2011 11:28:48 AM
* VPS: 110515-0, 15/05/2011
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Infected files: 0
Total files: 0
Total folders: 2
Total size: 0.0 B

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* Scan stopped: Sunday, May 15, 2011 11:28:48 AM
* Run-time was 0 second(s)
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* avast! Scan Report
* This file is generated automatically
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* Scan name: Scan from Windows Explorer
* Started on: Sunday, May 15, 2011 11:29:09 AM
* VPS: 110515-0, 15/05/2011
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Infected files: 0
Total files: 0
Total folders: 0
Total size: 0.0 B

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* Scan stopped: Sunday, May 15, 2011 11:29:09 AM
* Run-time was 0 second(s)
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[Asyn]

From what I can tell, it is not scanning any files.

Strange...

[spg SCOTT]

This is really messing with the way I check sites...checking what script is causing a detection, I have to open avast, choose what folder to scan, run the scan, and then answer no to the boot scan question...

Wish I could right click...

[igor]

Doesn't make much sense to me, I must say...
The context menu scan is, from the engine's point of view, a scan like any other...
Can you send me your avast5.ini?

[Asyn]

Wish I could right click...

Still no idea, why you can't...

[spg SCOTT]

Should be attached

[igor]

Something about the "extension scanning mode" (which you managed to have enabled somehow) is wrong... I'd say we'd better remove this option altogether, as it's not very useful and might confuse some users.

Please do the following: open the properties of the "Scan from Windows Explorer" scan, uncheck "Scan all files", switch the radio button to "content", close the window with OK, open the properties again, check "Scan all files" again, click OK.

[spg SCOTT]

Brilliant

It was on name extension, which was an empty list, so nothing scanned.

Changed it content and I get a detection. (An odd moment, happy to see a detection )

I noticed that the "scan mode" changed from normal to thorough as a result of the change...

(which you managed to have enabled somehow)

Do you mean that it shouldn't be possible, or that it is odd that it was set. I don't remember messing with it...

[igor]

The problem seems to occur only if that radio button is set to "extension", but the "All files" checkbox is also checked (which should disable the extension-mode anyway, but internally, it doesn't).
Without "all files", there's a default list of extension that will be scanned (though it hardly contains TXT which I saw in a number of your scans) - so having the extension list empty is not the problem.

[spg SCOTT]

Ok, Thanks for the explaination, and fix