AVAST hangs during scan.

Still using 5.0.677 as there are issues around in the latest version.

1.Recently I scanned a zip file with some samples with varying recursion depths . At a point the scanner hung and did nothing.Also the cpu usage shot up. Even after I closed the scan the CPU usage was high. So I had to ultimately shut down and restart. If the devolopers want I can upload the file to a sharing web site.

2.I have been using another Antivir in one of my systems.What I find is AVAST is very fast and good. But I also look forward to active participation from the devolopers on any suggestions and queries , to make it interesting to all.

Yes please - or you can upload it to ftp://ftp.avast.com/incoming
(On the other hand, I don’t really expect to be able to reproduce the problem, as basically all of the scanner code is inside of the virus definitions - i.e. it shouldn’t make any difference whether you’re using version 5.0 or 5.1, the scanner modules are always the same. But maybe we’ll be lucky…)
Thanks.

The file is drr.zip Password —virus . You should unzip dearer.doc completely and then run a scan from explorer. It is Download drr.zip from FileFactory.com

I’m afraid that, as I kinda expected, I’m unable to reproduce any freezing… the archive is processed without any problems :-\

Pl confirm that with Windows - 7 Home basic and AVAST 5.0.677. As I mentioned earlier I have been using 5.0.677 and I can confirm that I get the hangs even as I write…

Hello!? just wanna make sure the so called anomaly is sorted out in the later versions?

Download the last version of avast! (pre release) 5.1.874 and see if the problem it’s already fixed.
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=68927.0

Well, as I said, I’m afraid I couldn’t reproduce the problem, so nothing has changed.
If you could supply a dump of the frozen process (I’d provide some details), I might be able to find out something…

Seems to have been solved with 5.1.874 pre.The scan completes smoothly and the reports are generated. But there seems to be a problem here for which I have started a new thread.

It happened to me only once in 3 years, (avast held)
May be your system makes its slow, or late response from the system etc
Well I have also received some reservations from my costumers regarding this issue (avast held without any reason). & I have forwarded those to avast team.

Regards