As title. I was rather surprised when I was fiddling with a cd back up. I know it is clean. But I was like…wtf?? Avast doesn’t even look inside it?? o_O
So I scoped it out in the settings. The .bin archive is not there. Any chance this could be added as a feature? Would really be nice to have more archive scanners that scan inside before saying it is clean.
What would be the point? No file inside the .bin archive would be able to actually do something while it is just inside it. Either “something” would need to extract such malware, or you would need to expand its content. When the content is expanded, avast would detect the malware, depending on avast’s settings. This is the whole point of having a resident antivirus.
If you want to check it by yourself, use a temporary folder to expand the archive and scan that folder with avast.