Hi, I've been using Avast as a AV after switching from AVG, both of which are free. I'm just trying it out and I thought it was good until last night. I download a lot of stuff, usually in zip files before i extract them. However, I noticed that when you right click on a file to scan it, (as I did with AVG) Avast runs the scan but doesn't give you the results. It doesn't tell you whether the files are clean or infected, instead it just quickly closes the window without letting you know. This is beyond stupid, whats the point of running the scan if it won't tell you? So last night I downloaded a zip file which is a program, I right click on the icon and than ran the scan for that particular zip file. Same thing happens, runs the scan and it quickly closes without letting you know if it's clean or not. So i thought it was safe/clean, because it gave no warning. Well when i unzip the file than I finally get the ******* warning, how stupid is that? So for the first time I got a virus and never had one when i was using AVG. Can someone who uses Avast explain to me why it won't give you the results on a scan, so that you know before even opening a file (zip too, Win-RAR) if it's infected. I thought Avast was better than AVG but the right click scan option is really flawed and fucked if it doesnt let the user know the condition of a file.
**Please do not confuse this with the full system scan or single file scan option on the Avasst interface. I'm talking about when you right click on a file, folder, zip, and scan with Avast from there.
Thanks to all