How can I see what viruses/files/websites were blocked?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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How can I see what files/websites were blocked?
When I called Avast support they could not give me an answer… only said it could be a ‘hijack or other virus not detected…’ . I am using licensed avast! Internet Security, program version 2014.9.0.2021, virus definitions version 140901-0. I did full system scan, boot scan, and (as suggested by avast! support) ran Malwarebytes Premium’s full system scan in normal and safe modes. All scans were clean.
avast! Component status is saying that ‘1 viruses blocked in the last 30 days’ … I would really like to know what virus was blocked or at the least how to clear that message!

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Look at the log files.

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I cannot find any log file(s) connected to blocked viruses/files/websites… only thing I can find are related to quarantine, 3 that are 1 year old and scan history. Can you give me a clue on what ‘logs’ I should be looking for?

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try c:\programfiles\avast.…

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And the documents & settings folder.

Easiest is perhaps start > search > *.log (have it search your entire main drive)

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The search may not work if the folder is hidden, which it may well be in win7 or later.

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Thanks. I did a search of my system drive and found 21 *.log files (related to avast!)

Directory of C:\ProgramData\Alwil Software\Avast5

08/26/2014 11:30 AM 3,246 clickstream.log
1 File(s) 3,246 bytes

Directory of C:\ProgramData\Alwil Software\Avast5\log

08/31/2014 04:19 PM 58,510 aswAr.log
08/27/2014 08:52 AM 19,371,516 aswAr1.log
08/31/2014 12:56 PM 2,810 aswBoot.log
09/02/2014 07:43 AM 2,429 Avast-Browser-Cleanup-silent.log
08/31/2014 04:10 PM 647 Chest.log
08/27/2014 05:10 AM 125 crash.log
09/02/2014 04:22 AM 57,169 EventLog.log
09/02/2014 08:11 AM 33,995 GrimeFighter.log
09/02/2014 04:22 AM 307,816 HtmlRemoteContent.log
08/31/2014 04:11 PM 1,834 Logging.log
09/02/2014 07:42 AM 30,044 Mail.log
12/16/2013 07:50 PM 1,046 nshield.log
08/31/2014 04:11 PM 453 Resident.log
08/31/2014 04:11 PM 7,738 SecureLine.log
08/14/2014 12:18 AM 483,944 selfdef.log
09/02/2014 04:47 AM 3,878,555 softwarehealth.log
09/02/2014 07:42 AM 51,297 SpamEngine.log
09/02/2014 04:22 AM 22,566 UITracking.log
09/02/2014 08:04 AM 64,508 usntr.log
19 File(s) 24,377,002 bytes

Directory of C:\ProgramData\AVAST Software\Persistent Data\Avast\Logs

09/02/2014 07:23 AM 13,097,432 Update.log
1 File(s) 13,097,432 bytes

I’ve searched the contents of the files for ‘blocked’ and found only three entries in the nshield.log (dated 2012 & 2013).
Any other places to look? or just wait and see if Component status for blocked viruses changes…
Be helpful if one of the avast! programmers could chime in… :wink: