Avast free 5 - impossible to select lines of a scan report

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi,
I am a French user.
There is only a few days I installed Avast free version 5 in place of MSE
I meet 2 technical problems:

  • 41 false alarms (worm, trj…) resulting of a scan personalized on memory, rootkits
  • impossible to select the lines of the report and the button “apply” ineffective

I thank you for your answer to these problems (if it is)
I find new Avast clear and easy to use, good job.
Best regards

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Firstly these are detections in memory, this is caused by windows defender loading its virus signatures into memory unencrypted, and avast is detecting them.

The msmpeng.exe process is associated with the Microsoft Windows Defender application

You appear to have tweaked the avast scan settings:

In general, any security application can load some signatures (fragments of malicious code used to detect the real threats) into memory - they are located in data segments (instead of executable code). With "Ignore virus targeting" option enabled avast! can detect these harmless fragments.

These items in scan results are not the files but the virus is detected in memory allocated to security_program_name.exe process - because of this no action is available.

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Hi,
Many thanks, I come to understand many things. I actually requested a scan of the memory.
Your explanations are perfectly clear and I’m again…
A happy user

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No problem, glad I could help.

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