Hello again - just run my first scan after coming over from AVG.
I run a multi-boot system, XP, Vista, & 7/64 - Avast identifies the Pagefile and hyberfil files as infected on 7/64 (not Vista) - and one other false positive that I have reported (Retrospect).
Whats the best way to advise Avast as the files are too big to be reported in the normal false positive report?
Thank you, I have had a go. May I assume that the realtime system files exclusion would be non-effective of the Win 7/64 system files while running XP, and vice versa? ((Multi-boot system). I guess that I can’t exclude these false-positives without excluding the whole partition? Am i right?
Hi Pondus, In principle you’re right - but surely as XP and 7 aren’t running simultaneously (are on separate partitions), and therefore mse and avast are not active simultaneously, surely the golden rule of not having 2 AV’s loaded doesn’t apply?
The point here is that at present each AV scans all partitions (as was done with AVG), will see the files from the other OS’s & AV’s, but since only the active OS/AV matters, there should be no problem, in theory. I was just wondering why Avast picks up the pagefile and hiberfile for WIn 7 as infected?
I know I could ensure that Avast only scans the partitions that are relevant to it.