Sorry for the question… I was in a hurry when I read that.
My avast! both Home and Professional save events into the Windows XP Events feature. Can you at least see a page of the ‘antivirus’ or you have just three of them (applications, security and system events)?
Fire the avast Log Viewer (e.g. by right-clicking the avast tray icon) and go to Settings. How’s the Logging sensitivity set? Normally, it’s set to ‘Notice’.
BTW why do you think there should be any entries? Did your girlfriend get a virus? Normally, avast shouldn’t log much…
to make clear what I am talking about: This is an image of XP Event Viewer Log for avast on my English language system. I simply expect a similar log on my girlfirend’s German language system.
drahnier, if you right click the gruop ‘Antivirus’ at left and choose properties, are they the same on each system? Is there any filter or automatic cleaner of the XP events?
They are absolutely identical. There are no filters in effect. Both systems use %systemroot%\config\AnitVirus.Evt as logfile. Both files are 64kB in size, however the one on the German System appers to be empty (except for a small header) when opened with notepad.
It seems that drahnier and me have always the same problems.
My XP’s (finnish XP Home) antivirus event log is empty too and so is my mother-in-law’s (finnish XP Home).
Could this be somehow related to the issue that our automatic update doesn’t work? ???
Oh s**t! I should have read this topic more carefully before writing anything. :-[ I had set the logging sensivity level to “warning”. So I don’t have no problems on this. :-[
Really sorry!
So please expolain why I see those entries (informing me about a virus database update) on my system but not on my girl friend’s one, although both systems have the exact same settings. I just don’t understand.
Wrt to log viewer: No entries (zero!) on my girl friend’s system and some warnings and lots of notices on my system.
