avast! at logon time tool for avast! Evangelists

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I’m releasing avast! at logon tool.

It will be an application to schedule avast to be run at logon time, before any other application.
Logon process is halted until you finish your scanning with avast!
It will be a fast scanning and you’ll be able to work with avast! with its interface and all options, which is impossible at boot time.
It works with avast! version both Professional and Home versions.
It has the ability to logoff/logon Windows. There are two timeouts (5s) messages.
It’s being developed mostly for XP (but should work on NT/2k/Vista but not on Windows 9x or Me).

It will be a conditionware, I mean, it will be available to avast! evangelists only.
Maybe in the future, for avast! Sr. Member forum users.
It won’t be available for all avast! users, never, but only for the permanent forum users.

Download version 1.1 here: http://s28.quicksharing.com/v/2016835/avast_at_logon.zip.html

If you’re an avast! evangelist, you can ask me by IM and I’ll send you a password for the avast! at logon tool. I do not allow anybody to share the file and the password to anyone that does not meet the requirements. Please, respect my feelings.

Application icon was done by our master graphics guru S.Z.Craftec. (of course!) :wink:

Thanks for using it.
Enjoy avast experience!

All comments, suggestions and bug reports are welcome :slight_smile:

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should be a nice add-on :slight_smile:

Can I try it ?

Thanks

Al968

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I was waiting your IM 8)

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Sorry, I was going to but I could see your IM :-X
I downloaded the file but when I try to put in the password I get the following error message:
File Ignored, Unknown compression method ???
Any clues to why this is happening ?

Thanks

Al968

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I can’t believe… I’ve uploaded, downloaded, unzipped, virus check and tested and everything was working…
I’ll wait if other users have the same trouble. I’ve zipped it with IZArc 3.6.1260 and used the AES 256 bit encryption.
I can send it to you by email (without encryption). Can you send me an IM with your email address?

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I would love to try this Tech. I’ve sent you a PM.

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I too am interested in trying it. Please send it to me when you get a chance :slight_smile:

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Sent 8)

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The page is stuck on loading download, I’ve been waiting but it doesn’t seem to be doing anything. Is it possible for you to e-mail me the file?

EDIT
Nevermind, it was the scriptblocker add-on in firefox not allowing me to download it…

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I am also unable to extract it. I’ll send you an email address.

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OK, how do I IM you ??

Thanks

Al968

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I cannot extract it either…


http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i257/justin1278/th_error.jpg

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New download link: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=27213.msg221766#msg221766

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Ok great I was able to extract it and remove the password successfully. I will use it when Disk Defragmenter finishes up then I will report back.

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Yes it worked for me too :wink:

Nice job :smiley:

Al968

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I’m waiting for the feedback… I’m curious about what do you think about the tool… :slight_smile:

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Ok, I have it working now too.

So how does this compare to a boot scan? I mean it obviously loads a bit later in the boot sequence but it seems like its roughly equivalent to a boot scan.

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You’ll be logged as the Administrator (or account with admin rights) and not System.
You shouldn’t have problems to access folders (maybe \System Volume Information can’t be accessed).
All Windows and 3rd party services will be running. But not a program! This is what makes a ‘clean’ scanning with all avast features. Don’t you think so?

The scanning options are what you can set as in normal avast use.

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Hi Tech,

Nice tool looks very good and promising. I found what may be a bug. When switching from one interface to another in the pro version (i.e. enhanced user interface to the Simple User interface) Windows begins to continue booting.

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Now that you got that zip-unzip problem straightened out, it seems to be working fine.

I’m surprised, though, that a standard scan (no archives) takes about the same or even a little longer for me doing it this way than a “standard” standard scan, and there’s still a humongous list of files not accessed because in use. What, really, are we gaining with this tool?