Hi, as I say by default Avast alerts you to what threats has been found. This does not mean that it should be that way, however the only place as far as I know to turn those alerts off is in the dialogue itself, where you check a check box to not show you alerts again. I'm not sure what the default action for malware removal is once that check box is unchecked since I personally liked being warned when a threat has been found as at least I get an opportunity to see what Avast has picked up. But to each his own I guess. Second, you don't have to delete the archived files that couldn't be accessed. If you click the action button, you'll see things like rename/move, move to chest, etc. Personally I've had little to no false positives with Avast compared to AVG, which picked up trojans that even Google's never heard of. Hope that helps. -- Chris Hallsworth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margaret Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 10:30 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Scanning with Avast?
> Chris, > > I hadn't performed disk maintenance in way too long and decided to do a > "twofer" that might also give Avast less things to check. I deleted a > slew > of old e-mail and some files and programs and did the disk maintenance. I > had a rotten headache by this time and had to call my tech about a loop in > Word 2000 that I couldn't get out of. He worked on that and I asked him > to > look at Avast and see what he could see in the chest and to get rid of it > so > I wouldn't have to spend another 8 hours for it to find the same stuff all > over again. He said there were 18 items in the chest. I could swear that > I'd put multiple times more than that in since Avast was literally > sounding > every 30 seconds or so and wanting me to take some action before it would > proceed. I don't know if the fact that my clock was off meant we'd lost > power. It had been windy and it was possible, but the clock is old and > has > been off a couple times in the last several days. If the UPS was beeping, > I > slept through it. > > About two minutes after I hung up with my tech, I got a mail delivery > error message in OE. It cleared up on it's own after a couple of minutes, > but then appeared again. I took my aching head to bed and the problem > hadn't cleared up when I got back to the computer several hours later. It > was an "unknown error" and mentioned Avast in the wording. I could get > web > pages to load, but couldn't send or receive mail. A Google search brought > an inquiry from someone else who was asking about the same error message > on > his parents' machine, but the moderator had either blocked replies or > there > weren't any after 30 days, so I didn't get a fix. I tried the good old > reboot and am getting mail again. > > I had the same Word problem before I rebooted, but my head still hurts > and it's the least of my current problems. > > My tech is an AVG user, but he thought test archives shouldn't be > checked and only hard drives should be. What does test archives do? What > would happen if I permanently deleted what Avast found and it did turn out > to be something real instead of a false positive? Most of all, do you > really have to sit there the entire time and take some action every 30 > seconds while Avast thinks it's found something? I've previously used > both > Norton Anti-Virus and AVG and with both of them you could do something > else > while they scanned the drive and could periodically check on the progress. > > Thanks, > > Margaret > > > "Chris Hallsworth" wrote: > > > Hi, Avast by default will alert you of any threats. The scan will be > interrupted when the box(es) appear. Just click delete, tell it to > permanently delete the file and ensure that the file will get deleted upon > reboot, click delete and it'll carry on. You can tell it not to show you > the > alerts in the future from within the alert boxes, but I'm not sure how to > get it back short of a reinstall. I'll try and look into this. Hope that > helps. > -- > Chris Hallsworth > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Margaret Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 5:51 AM > Subject: [Blind-Computing] Scanning with Avast? > > >> Hi All, >> >> I attempted my first scan with the free version of Avast yesterday and >> the thing drove me nuts. >> >> I thought I chose hard drive, test archives, and thorough scan and in >> over 10 hours of actual time only got to 17% and I think it found >> something >> like 157 things. It seemed like every 20 seconds it wanted something >> sent >> to the chest and, if I'm using the thing properly, you have to baby sit >> the >> thing and can't leave it unattended. My patience wore out last night and >> I >> left it to do whatever it did and, when I came back down, it was still at >> the same percentage I'd left it at. >> >> I ran AVG 7.5 before my tech remotely installed Avast and a scan of >> the >> hard drive only found 4 false positives and it scanned the whole C drive >> in >> something like 2 hours. >> >> I'm running JAWS 9.0.2169 on XP Home with SP2. The latest version of >> JAWS seems to have some focus problems with OE 6, so I decided to try >> Avast >> before going with AVG 8 free since I didn't know if I'd keep using >> 9.0.2169. >> >> Am I trying to scan correctly? Are other people having this many >> "infections?" >> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated, >> >> Margaret >> > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Visit the Blind Computing home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ > To post to this group, send email to > blind-computing@jaws-users.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php > If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
