OK i scanned my pc and it came up with a false positive and for kicks i wanted to see if it logged the scan. I can’t seem to find where it logged the scan at though. I checked the Avast Log Viewer and didn’t see where it might have put it.
One other way, if your timing’s right – if you’ve just run a scan and haven’t yet closed the summary report and returned to the main (“Status”) view, there’s a link at the bottom of the summary that you can click on to view the full report. What “full” includes depends, of course, on how you’ve set your Report setting options.
I think generation of scan reports is not turned on by default. It has to be enabled first. To do this, start avast, go to the menu (e.g. by right-clicking almost anywhere on the panel), select Settings and go to the Report page.
That was it. By default it didn’t turn on logging. Thanks for the help, i like to know what a program scans and finds, if anything…that way i can back track if i can’t deal w/ it right away.
Just one last (maybe ) comment/reminder - don’t confuse logs with reports, they’re totally different and serve different purposes. There’s been several threads going about that, but I’ll try to briefly recap:
Reports are essentially the results of a-v activity, whether a disk scan or the resident providers, and indicate what was checked and what, if anything, turned up.
The logs are more geared to problems within avast itself, or within your system, not (usually, anyway) related to virus activity – inability to open or copy necessary files, for instance.