Avast 5 worst than Avast 4.8 ?

[system]

You see, I was testing my antivirus ( once again ) using the eicar antivirust test file and I discovered that avast 5 cannot scan the Https stream download. I clearly remebered 4. being able to do so.

[system]

don’t worry about that the important is u are protected I like avast 5 than avast 4, u know what its because they will delete the virus automatically unlike avast 4 its noisy.

[DavidR]

@sw post:1

You see, I was testing my antivirus ( once again ) using the eicar antivirust test file and I discovered that avast 5 cannot scan the Https stream download. I clearly remebered 4. being able to do so.

Not correct.

avast 4 has ‘never’ been able to scan https streams, in fact it ‘never’ even monitored https traffic, how could it, it is encrypted. That is the whole purpose of https, to keep prying eyes out including AVs. Even if it were to scan it, first it would have to break the encryption and that would a) require huge processing power and b) would slow your browsing to a crawl if not a standstill.

[Yanto.Chiang]

Hi SW,

I think you need to check it first, before you complain about the feature.

I already tried it and it worked too with avast 5.0.396.

Let me guide you :

1. Open your avast 5.0 GUI
2. Go to Real Time Shield
3. Choose File System Shield
4. Click Expert Setting
5. At Scan When Opening or Scan When Writing Tab, please check Scan All Files

My assumption avast wouldn’t be able to scan .zip file, if you not check avast to scan all files.

Hopefully can answered your need.
I also attach my screen shoot.

[system]

@Yanto.Chiang post:4

Hi SW,

I think you need to check it first, before you complain about the feature.

I already tried it and it worked too with avast 5.0.396.

Let me guide you :

1. Open your avast 5.0 GUI
2. Go to Real Time Shield
3. Choose File System Shield
4. Click Expert Setting
5. At Scan When Opening or Scan When Writing Tab, please check Scan All Files

Oh, so thats why 5.0 does not scan the files, sorry guys for my mistake. 5.0 sure is difficult to config.

My assumption avast wouldn’t be able to scan .zip file, if you not check avast to scan all files.

Hopefully can answered your need.
I also attach my screen shoot.

[system]

By the way, does anyone know how to end this topic? Also does anyone know if avast is protecting against msn virus?

[system]

@sw post:1

You see, I was testing my antivirus ( once again ) using the eicar antivirust test file and I discovered that avast 5 cannot scan the Https stream download. I clearly remebered 4. being able to do so.

oh you clearly remember that ;D wanna scan HTTPS connections hey : see what HTTPS is and read your post again. The Web Shield won’t help I’m afraid as encrypted means encrypted. Only way out is to scan on disk with the file system shield, so at disk level, and not at connection level.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Secure

[system]

@Yanto.Chiang post:4

Hi SW,

I think you need to check it first, before you complain about the feature.

I already tried it and it worked too with avast 5.0.396.

Let me guide you :

1. Open your avast 5.0 GUI
2. Go to Real Time Shield
3. Choose File System Shield
4. Click Expert Setting
5. At Scan When Opening or Scan When Writing Tab, please check Scan All Files

My assumption avast wouldn’t be able to scan .zip file, if you not check avast to scan all files.

Hopefully can answered your need.
I also attach my screen shoot.

hmm… no good idea at all, this could bring most systems to a crawl ;D adding just one or two packers + the same as custom extensions is the way, and this should be minimal to avoid serious impact on system performance. Archives will be scanned anyway when you open them, so no need to increase the AV activity uselessly.