Great Product ! I got rid of Norton/Symantec and my AV headaches went with it!
I’m running the Home version 4.8 how do I:
Run a scan of my system but get Avast to quietly log the problems so that I can
see them in a single window at the end of the scan ? Right now I get the siren and
it stops scanning. I’d prefer to be able to start the scan, go out for an hour to do things
then come back and deal with issues.
How do I find the latest version ? I see the little box over my tray every so often but
sometimes it disappears before I can see exactly what it says or download the new version
(I’m often doing something else while the pc boots). Is there an EXE I can run that will
check for new versions of the engine/software ? (not the virus defs).
I would also suggest checking out this page to make sure that any remnants of your headache are truly gone, it can be a pig to remove.
A link worth looking at, which is a program removal tool that can remove the remnants of a number of different Norton Programs: Removing your Norton program using SymNRT
These automated options are only available in the Pro version. This is a limitation of the Home (free) version that it has interactive input requirement, there have to be differences in the Home/Pro version and this is one of them, the programmers have to eat ;D
In the Home version you can check the option “Don’t show this window again” when the first virus warning appears, select the “No action” button. This way, no action will be taken and you will given the results at the end of the scan (and you can perform actions from there). Over time this will become less of an issue, as the resident, on-access scanners are designed to intercept infection before it gets into your system.
There was one suggestion to place something like the eicar virus test file at the start of the first drive to be scanned in a file like ~a-eicar.com that should soon be detected and you can do the option “Don’t show this window again” when the first virus warning appears, select the “No action” button. So you should have a list of files waiting your action.
Right click on the avast a icon and select about avast, that displays the Program and VPS version numbers.
The avast virus signature updates are incremental and automatic. The program updates are larger and as such not automatic, but they check if an update is available and Ask (in the form of a pop-up) if you want to update now. It checks for updates when you first connect (it doesn’t establish a connection) and every 4 hours if you remain connected.
You can also do a manual update, right click the avast ‘a’ icon, select Updating an either iAVS Update (the virus signatures) or Program Update (this also gets any signature update at the same time).
Oh, I got rid of Norton months ago when I re-imaged my laptop. NRT and all. It’s long gone, and no headaches since.
Okay, that’s what I thought. I have some old .tar files that contain a virus/malware (from the old days) and I can scan those first and see about doing the rest silently.