I did one of my many scans and a large list of residue appeared of files that Avast could not scan because they are “Password protected”. All of them seemed to be “png” files in the archives.
Having looked at the Avast blogs on this from previous users complaints, I did a search for “*.png” and all of these files are images or icons. None of them being at all suspicious.
From the Avast previous blogs etc. it is stated that all these Password protected files pose no threat whilst they are in the archives. It is then said that when any of these files become live, Avast will check them and will block them if any problems.
yes, realtime protection monitor evrything that happens in your computer when on
any file that is unpacked/access/read/save/run … is checked in realtime
a file that can not be scanned does not mean it is infected, just that it could not be scanned for whatever reason avast give. it is normal
if you tell us what file / location … full file path, we may be able to tell you what they are
