It wouldn’t matter what engine it had, if its not TRUELY scanning within those packs/archives, it won’t find them. eXtendia AVK for example, uses the KAV+RAV databases/definitions in a dual engined format. Theres virtually nothing that it can’t detect. It failed like the others, because it simply required me to be down to the second to lowest common denominator to find it!

Its not luck, its simple math. Avast REALLY scanned the archives, none of the other products did. When you select “Scan Archive” on another AV, don’t you expect it to be scanning the archive, any files within the archive, and any other archives within that archive? I know I would, and its a bit misleading that they don’t.

For that, Avast has my respect, and money (at least for single user version)… Now if we can get some advanced heuristics, i’d buy a enterprise license for the 80 PC’s at work and 4 at home. LOL!

PS: I’m running imaging software, but ideally, I should be running a Virtual Machine. Too lazy to set it up. But worst case, the test PC can be easily formatted without any headaches, i’ve got a custom build windowsXP Pro CD that installs all my drives and programs automagically. :wink: