Avast4workstation - segmentation fault when checking .chm file

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Hello:

I’ve had avast4workstation installed since April, but I never tried to do a full scan of my machine until a few days ago. Unfortunately, the scan did not complete. After much research, I found that avast consistently exits with a segmentation fault when scanning one particular file on my MS Windows XP partition. Up to that point, it seems to run fine. Here is the CLI output:

[root@presario /mnt/c_drive/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/Intuit/Quicken/Help]# ls -la
total 5.5M
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K Aug  1  2006 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K Oct 10  2006 ..
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root    0 Aug  1  2006 Bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.2M Jun 24  2005 business.pdf
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K Aug  1  2006 Images
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  117 Mar  2  2005 index.ini
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.0M Jun 28  2005 quicken.chm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.7M Jun 28  2005 setup.pdf
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root    0 Aug  1  2006 Styles
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.7K Jul  4  2003 _updated.js
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 656K Jun 28  2005 WhatsNew.pdf
[root@presario /mnt/c_drive/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/Intuit/Quicken/Help]# avast -a -c -p 4 -r /home/Vince/.avast/scan_report_test.txt -t A ./q*
/usr/bin/avast: line 169: 28858 Segmentation fault      $AVAST_PREFIX/bin/$programname $*
[root@presario /mnt/c_drive/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/Intuit/Quicken/Help]# file quicken.chm
quicken.chm: MS Windows HtmlHelp Data

Any ideas as to why this one particular file is causing avast to crash?

I really like avast - the GUI is good, and the command-line scanning is convenient for cron jobs - but I can’t use avast for scheduled cron scans because of this problem. Any help/suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanx and Regards,
Vince

Avast Free Linux Home Edition (avast4workstation-1.0.8-1.i586.rpm)
uname -a: Linux 2.6.20-1.2952.fc6 #1 SMP Wed May 16 18:59:18 EDT 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
Compaq Presario SR2020NX, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (~2.2GHz, stepped), nvidia GeForce 6150 LE graphics, 512MB RAM, sda SATA 160 GB, sdb SATA 250GB
Dual Boot: Fedora Core 6 and Windows XP MCE

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hi,
please, can you send me your ‘quicken.chm’ file at mail address ‘mensik@avast.com’?

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Done.

Thanx,
V

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fixed

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[root@presario /usr/lib/avast4workstation/lib]# ln -s ./libavastengine-4.so.7.0.2 ./libavastengine-4.so.7
[root@presario /usr/lib/avast4workstation/lib]# ls -lh
total 1.9M
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul 31 06:22 libavastengine-4.so.7 → ./libavastengine-4.so.7.0.2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 users 1.9M Jul 31 05:21 libavastengine-4.so.7.0.2
[root@presario /usr/lib/avast4workstation/lib]#cd “/mnt/c_drive/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/Intuit/Quicken/Help”
[root@presario /mnt/c_drive/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/Intuit/Quicken/Help]# llha
total 5.5M
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K Aug 1 2006 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K Oct 10 2006 …
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Aug 1 2006 Bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.2M Jun 24 2005 business.pdf
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K Aug 1 2006 Images
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 117 Mar 2 2005 index.ini
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.0M Jun 28 2005 quicken.chm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.7M Jun 28 2005 setup.pdf
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Aug 1 2006 Styles
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.7K Jul 4 2003 _updated.js
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 656K Jun 28 2005 WhatsNew.pdf
[root@presario /mnt/c_drive/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/Intuit/Quicken/Help]# avast -a -c -p 4 -r /home/Vince/.avast/segfault_report_test.txt -t A ./*
[…]
.
[…]

Statistics:

scanned files: 1620

scanned directories: 6

infected files: 0

total file size: 18.7 MB

virus database: 000762-4 30.07.2007

test elapsed: 5s 876ms

[root@presario /mnt/c_drive/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/Intuit/Quicken/Help]#

Results: Scan successful; /home/Vince/.avast/segfault_report_test.txt attached; problem fixed.

Thanx Again and Regards,
Vince