Avast 4.7 pro
I schedule a Scan at 7am in the morning - 3.2 Ghz/1 gig ram Celeron windows xp2
usually it completes in about 30-40 minutes - 33 gig/ 130,000 files
but now seems to continue endlessly and finishes at about 08:20am
Seems to me in the past the interface used to show the files clicking over and you could tell where it was on the drive ie c/d/e/f - the interface (enhanced) is not showing this anymore.
Is there a malfunction here? Also in the past it never slowed down my machine but now while scanning it impedes my operations
Has there been some update by MS/yourselves or dare I say it Norton (ghost) which has interfered with normal operations.
Finally is there some log file somewhere that shows start and stop time of every
scan and it success or failure?
Can you check if there is any log file about the issue?
\Data\Log
Or any error files here:
C:\WINDOWS\Temp_avast4_
Searched for all log and temp files requested here is results -
All o ther entries in log files were either empty or clearly innocuous
ERROR LOG
Closing two entries 07/12/2006 and opening two entries for today
7/12/2006 8:10:27 AM 1152706227 SYSTEM 1992 Storage query “INSERT INTO LocalProperties (Object, Property, Val) VALUES (1889350707, ‘RunTime’, ‘130599424211554435’);” failed. Error description: “database is locked”.
7/12/2006 8:10:27 AM 1152706227 SYSTEM 1992 Storage query “INSERT INTO LocalProperties (Object, Property, Val) VALUES (1889350707, ‘InfectedFiles’, ‘0’);” failed. Error description: “database is locked”.
7/13/2006 8:09:27 AM 1152792567 SYSTEM 1988 Storage query “INSERT INTO LocalProperties (Object, Property, Val) VALUES (1889350708, ‘TestedFiles’, ‘134893’);” failed. Error description: “database is locked”.
7/13/2006 8:09:27 AM 1152792567 SYSTEM 1988 Storage query “INSERT INTO LocalProperties (Object, Property, Val) VALUES (1889350708, ‘TestedData’, ‘35396798489’);” failed. Error description: “database is locked”.
Two or three pages of these above types of entry ending with:
7/13/2006 8:09:34 AM 1152792574 SYSTEM 1988 Storage query “INSERT INTO LocalProperties (Object, Property, Val) VALUES (1889350708, ‘InfectedFiles’, ‘0’);” failed. Error description: “database is locked”.
NOTICE LOG
Notice log as follows yesterday and today entry:
7/12/2006 6:00:50 AM 1152698450 SYSTEM 1992 The virus database (VPS 0628-3) was automatically updated.
7/13/2006 8:22:46 AM 1152793366 SYSTEM 1988 The virus database (VPS 0628-4) was automatically updated.
SETUP LOG
12.07.2006 06:00:49.000 1152698449 general Return code: 0x20000000 [Something done]
12.07.2006 06:00:49.000 1152698449 general Stopped: 12.07.2006, 06:00:49
Today looks innocuous and entry is after virusscan had ceased.
13.07.2006 08:22:29.000 1152793349 general Started: 13.07.2006, 08:22:29
13.07.2006 08:22:29.000 1152793349 general Running setup_av_pro-34c (844)
13.07.2006 08:22:29.000 1152793349 system Operating system: WindowsXP ver 5.
WARNING LOG
Last entry June 22, 2006 – not a lot of entries before this
6/14/2006 4:14:35 PM 1150316075 SYSTEM 1992 Sign of “Win32:FakeAlert [Trj]” has been found in “http://locator1.cdn.imagesrvr.com/sites/errorsafe.com/www/pages/scanner/ErrorSafeFreeInstall.cab\UERS_0001_N85M0906NetInstaller.exe” file.
6/22/2006 3:44:23 PM 1151005463 SYSTEM 1988 Sign of “MS06-001 WMF Exploit” has been found in “http://countbest.net/adv/033/xpl.wmf” file.
6/22/2006 3:44:27 PM 1151005467 SYSTEM 1988 Sign of “VBS:Malware [Gen]” has been found in “http://countbest.net/adv/033/count.jar\BlackBox.class” file.
C:\WINDOWS\Temp_avast4 - folder only
There is a file located inside this folder called
Webschlock.txt – and it is not accessible to me – as it is being used by another process.
there is no actual file with this name
I hope this helps…
Hi Alan :
The "Warning Log" mentions trojan(s) and Malware; what other
security program(s) do you have on your computer that should be
able to detect and delete these ?
For those having Win XP SP2 Operating System(s), we usually
recommend the good & FREE "Ewido" from www.ewido.net/en .
Scanned for trojans and malware - removed two lowly trojans and 114 medium risk cookies -we will wait and see