Yes, you can do that.
But it’s really sad that you can’t see the problem. I’ve written it for you twice already and you either fail to understand or it’s selective ignorance, willfully or not.
Last attempt, read it very carefully: Win8.1.1, newest Avast 2014.9.0.2018, FSS STOPS eicar.com when downloaded with IE, without webshield… with Firefox, Avast FSS is silent.
And then there’s the second problem, possibly related to the 1st one; read what Igor from Avast team wrote earlier:
Igor obviously knows that there really could be a problem in current Avast, AND with specific option which is ON by DEFAULT, for EVERY new installed Avast.
My reply to that post, which confirms that the problem exists, was:
Yes, I can perfectly copy the eicar.com file anywhere I like, Avast does nothing.
If I turn off the “Optimize scanning during file copy option”, Avast stops file copy process. Seems to me that there’s a loophole in the protection with this setting set to “on”. Worrying.
BUT, that option still “off”, downloading the eicar.com file yields NO action from Avast. I find this a bit odd. There, in my download folder is a (fake)virus and Avast did nothing.
So, there’s 2 problems. I’m sorry if that eats away your confidence about Avast. Now, we have heard you. Thanks for your input. Please don’t post same thing here anymore. Thanks.
One would think that fellow Avast users would be interested and perhaps a little worried when somebody tells that there could be 1-2 problems in of the security layers in the very same security product that they use. But obviously no. :
I was once like you, I ran everything I could get my hands on, “just to be safe”. Then, I wisened up (& learned more about security) and stopped wasting my time (and now when I think of it, I wasted SO MUCH TIME) with all the software/settings/etc.