As I reviewed my scan report files, I noticed that Avast doesn’t scan a lot of files for the reason that it “cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.” Is this normal?
I notice also that the scan of many files from “System Volume Information” (I believe that’s my restore file) show “Access is denied” results. Is that normal?
It seems like a lot of files are not being scanned either because they are “being used by another process” or “access is denied.” What can I do to correct this?
Just in case its useful info, I’ve attached the logs of 2 recent Avast scans to this message. The first scan was run under a standard user account; the second under an administrator account.
FYI, I ran the second scan under an administrator account thinking that maybe not having full administrator privileges was the reason why some files could not be accessed; but I guess that wasn’t it. :-\
Ok, I reproduced same the “access is denied”/“being used by another process” results with another Avast scan under my Administrator account.
Do I understand correctly that these “access is denied” and “being used by another process” results are “normal” and I shouldn’t be surprised seeing these results in my Avast report files? I just want to be sure I shouldn’t be worried.
