Clam Win & Avast question ?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I tried CW just for the heck of it.The scan ran for just under an hour.The whole time Avast ball in the taskbar was spinning ,is it suppose to do that ?

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Did you have CW and Avast – 2 resident AV’s on your machine at the same time?

3

well avast! is monitoring everything happening with the files on your computer, that is what a AV program is suppose to do
So it was whatching ClamWins work, that is also why you can/will have conflicts when installing multiple AV programs…

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Thanks guys I cant seem to leave well enough alone, just had to try it.I uninstalled it all ready.
Using avast it didn’t fine anything anyway.

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Make sure you reboot after your CW uninstall.

After this, you may have to do an Avast Repair since you had 2 AV’s in your system:

  • Go to Control Panel > Add/Remove programs > Avast Antivirus.
  • Scroll down and choose Repair function in the pop-up window.
  • Reboot.

See how everything works with Avast. If any problems, let us know.

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It is not a resident antivirus as seen here : http://www.clamwin.com/

Please note that ClamWin Free Antivirus does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware.
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Correct. I use it here as a second opinion manual scan for downloaded install programs. There is no conflict.

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I stand corrected. Then we are back to the OP’s problem.

@ Gopher John, since you also use this software, does your Avast toolbar also spin like crazy as the OP describes when running a scan with CW? If not, we need to figure out what else is causing his/her problem.

@ marc-d-l, Do you have any other security software on your machine besides what you mentioned or in your Signature? Is SAS Pro or Free? Is anything else scanning at the time you are running the CW scan? I’m trying to problem-solve. Thanks.

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I still say my answer is valid. avast files shield is wathing all file activity on the comp therefor spinning when you scan with ClamWin
when i scan with Malwarebytes the ball is spinning…avast! is monitoring the file activity

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I agree with you Pondus, but I was curious to see if Gopher John was also seeing this as well since he uses CW. However, everyone’s system is different.

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off topic:
have noticed on my work laptop that if i disable Norman autoscan then the mawarebyte scan is faster
have not tested this on the avast! machine, but if anyone have a large disk they want to check with MBAM the scan may go faster if you turn off the shields for 30min ?

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When I scan several files with ClamWin, the Avast tray icon does spin. It also spins when I scan with MalwareBytes, SpyBot Search & Destroy, or SuperAntiSpyware. Anything that accesses the files would cause Avast to monitor that activity. In a sense, the scanning program must open the scanned file. If Avast File Shield didn’t show some activity at that time, I’d be worried.

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No I don’t have anything else (AV’s) running.Malwarebytes and superantispyware does’t cause the orange ball to spin. Should it???

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I just tested and ran MBAM Free to see if my Avast ball would spin and it does on a rare occasion while I’m also in the forum/online. While I did this, I also went into the Avast Shields to see what, if anything was being scanned. I think we probably have little activity for Avast to scan.