I have been concerned with how well Avast is at scanning files when I right click and scan. I use Avast heavily in this area, and am discovering that it does not do that well of a job.....or maybe it does and I am missing something somewhere. Yes I do know that the resident scanner will pick up a virus when it tries to run on my system. However, my goal is to find a virus before it has a chance to get on my system. Ok, out of curiousity, I have installed the new AVG 7 beta, to give it a test on my fav AV ability.....to right click and scan files. For example, I run Nero 6 on my system. The exe that I used to install Nero, is a fat file full of info. When I use Avast to right click and scan, it returns results saying that is scanned 2 objects. Same results if I use the main GUI and scan through that with scan archives enabled. Now, if I use the AVG 7 beta, and right click and scan the same Nero exe, AVG picks that exe apart, and scans the entire contents. You can see during the scan all the different files inside the exe that AVG is scanning. Matter of fact, see my screeny, it shows that AVG scanned 493 objects in that Nero exe. Can someone please explain whats going on between Avast and AVG during a scan on the same exe?? I don't want this to turn into a defensive argument for Avast. I am just wanting to know why it seems Avast is not doing that good of a job during a scan on exe files I download from the internet. This function is one of the most important for me with any AV.
Thanks
Tipton
