I wanted to ask if there is a way for avast to protect you when downloading from the internet? What I mean is, say you went to a website and wanted to download a file from there, when you click on the link or right click and “save target as…” and select a directory, is there a setting so that avast will check the file that’s downloading before you actually download to see if it has a virus?
I did a test run and was able to download a bogus virus, but when i tried to open then avast alerted me. My concern is with two teenage children, they may unknowingly download a file that is infected. I’m looking to prevent it before hand if that’s at all possible, please let me know thanks!
You could use Star Downloader v1.43 (Free) to manage your downloads. You can set it to scan files immediately after they’re downloaded with avasts quick scanner, ashquick.exe.
One thing you could do is customize your Standard-shield settings. On the “Scanner (advanced)” tab, tick “Created/modified files” and also tick “All files”. That way anything that gets saved to disk, even in temp files, will be checked in the process.
But be warned, that’ll almost certainly slow everything you do way down because your computer’s spending a great deal of its time scanning files as they’re saved.
As a reasonable compromise, you could do the same thing but tick “Only files with selected extensions” and “Default extension set”, rather than “All files”. While there’s no guarantees, of course, that should still catch just about anything but it checks only infectable-type files.
A file can only be scanned locally… You should be finished your download and ‘have’ the file yet. Other antivirus will do the same.
You can add a shortcut into your download manager (if you use any):
C:\Program files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashQuick.exe
without extra parameters 8)
). The “before you download” part of the question slipped right past me. :-[