Dose avast!4.x Home surpport Flashget?

system · 2006-11-21T04:32:47.000Z

When the Flashget is downloading the files, will Avast!4.x Home scan the files at the same time or untill it finished them would have Avast!4.x Home scaned them?

alanrf · 2006-11-21T05:01:59.000Z

Flashget seems to be a download manager.

Most useful download managers allow you to configure them so that at the end of downloading the downloaded file can be scanned by your resident antivirus scanner.

If Flashget provides you a place to specify the scanning program then it is (typically):

C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashQuick.exe

Lisandro · 2006-11-21T10:45:35.000Z

cnshzj007 post:1:

Will Avast!4.x Home scan the files at the same time

Maybe… if it is downloaded by an HTTP connection, WebShield could be monitoring it…

cnshzj007 post:1:

or untill it finished them would have Avast!4.x Home scaned them?

Besides what Alan posted, which is fully right of course, the Standard Shield at High sensitivity will scan the file when it is being saved to disk.

system · 2006-11-21T14:21:27.000Z

As we all know, not only the HTTP but also the FTP is the type of the sources’ connection of the files we want to download. Now the question comes. Is FTP surpported by the AVAST!4.x Home?

DavidR · 2006-11-21T14:37:21.000Z

That would depend on how you download it, if using a download manager with the setting to scan a file when the download is complete and you have entered the path previously given. Then Yes it would be scanned, as would it with standard shield set to High as also previously mentioned

If you use your browser or an ftp program then No web shield wouldn’t scan it, as it isn’t using the http protocol. It would be scanned with standard shield set to High as also previously mentioned (newly created or modified files depending on sensitivity settings are scanned).

system · 2006-11-21T14:48:45.000Z

OK.
I GOT IT.
Web monitor is only for the HTTP.
What’s more, Can we say it safely surf on line using the Avast!4.x Home?

Lisandro · 2006-11-21T16:21:48.000Z

cnshzj007 post:4:

Is FTP surpported by the AVAST!4.x Home?

By the Standard Shield at High sensitivity will scan the file when it is being saved to disk, or using ashQuick.exe after the download manager finishes its job.

cnshzj007 post:6:

What’s more, Can we say it safely surf on line using the Avast!4.x Home?

Yes… but you need a firewall and an antispyware also… layered defense is the key of security 8)

system · 2006-11-22T02:08:44.000Z

As you said, avast!4.x Home is just an antivirus software, not an antispyware, is that true?

Lisandro · 2006-11-22T02:36:28.000Z

cnshzj007 post:8:

As you said, avast!4.x Home is just an antivirus software, not an antispyware, is that true?

Yes and no… I mean, a lot of spyware and trojan are detected by avast.
But it is not a native antispyware (with all antispyware functions). You need: a-squared, Free AVG Antispyware, SUPERantispyware or Spyware Terminator.

system · 2006-11-22T04:36:50.000Z

Thanks a lot.
I have installed the spyware terminator.
I like it because it can monitor many things about changing system configure.

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