can't specify harddrives to scan

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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In avast 7 and before I could specify drives to scan. I had set up a custom scan with the drives to scan. With the update to v8, I went to this same custom scan, clicked start and it returned quickly after scanning only a few files, whereas before it would typically take 1.5-2 hours. I don’t see any switches that might be causing it to scan only the top level of each drive. It’s almost as if its ignoring the drive/area list. I even tried creating a new scan and the same problem occurs.

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I don’t know about using a previously defined custom scan from an earlier version of avast!, but I just created such a custom scan from scratch. Here’s what I did:

  1. Right click the avast! icon in the system tray, choose Open avast! user interface.

  2. Make sure the SECURITY tab is selected, then choose ANTIVIRUS (on the left).

  3. On the very bottom, at the far right, there’s a ‘link’ called Create Custom Scan (choose that).

  4. In the “Scan Name” field, create a name for your scan.

  5. In the “Scan Areas” drop down box, click on the down arrow, then click on the “Browse…” button.

  6. You’ll get a complete list of all drives. Click on which drives and/or folders you want to scan (the chosen paths will appear in the “Selected paths” box), then click the “OK” box, then the “OK” box above that.

  7. You now have a custom scan named by you, with the specific drives/folders chosen by you. Click on that scan’s “Start” button to start the custom scan.

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:frowning: Same result

4

Anybody have ANY ideas? I can’t believe this is broken. Looks like it scans 0 files and 4 folders. I point it at a drive that’s got GBs of files, scans 0/4. What gives? Was this code changed since Avast v7? The file syntax for this test is G:. Shouldn’t this work?

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If I have the harddrive list D:,E:,F:,G:,I:,J:,K:,U:,C:, it will do the I: partition only. There is something about the fifth entry that it goes after, but I can’t come up with a good reproducible test. This appears broken, at least on W2K SP4.

I remember the listings working a little strange on Avast 7 and prior versions, where you would enter a list of partitions, and it would bring one of them around to the very end. However, it would scan them all AFAIK.

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:frowning: Doesn’t look like there is a command line scanner either for !free.

7

:frowning: My Computers selection don’t work either. It just creates a list of drives, which doesn’t work as before.

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Start a topic here https://feedback.avast.com/
Click log-in>click “single log-in” :slight_smile:

9

Thanks, I think I got the feedback posted.

10

Select Custom scan
Select All hard drives then Browse
Tick the drive to scan

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:frowning: Nope, still just 0/4 scanned, returned within just a few seconds. There’s several GB / dozens of files on the G drive, which is the one I selected.