IE7 Beta2 Preview and avast!

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
1

IE7 feeds seem to confuse avast:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: avast!
Event Category: Client
Event ID: 90
Date: 02/10/06
Time: 15:15:52
User: N/A
Computer: DD-R401
Description:
AAVM - scanning error: x_AavmCheckFileDirectEx: avfilesScanReal of C:\Documents and Settings\drahnier\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Feeds\News~\World News~\BBC News~.feed-ms failed, 0000A477.

drahnier

2

Hmmm … I have been using IE7 Beta2 since it’s release but I have not had this problem yet. I get news and RSS feeds on my Earthlink home page. have you posted at the Beta2 discussion board?

3

Charly,

did you “Enable scheduled syncing of feeds”?

And no, I havn’t yet posted to IE newsgroup. I’m pretty sure this is an avast problem.

drahnier

4

Interesting, is this problem reproducible? And is this WinXP?

BTW drahnier welcome back, you only come when you have a new problem! ;D

5

Well, do you think it’s really IE7 specific? I believe we’ve seen similar log entries for all Windows version… coming probably from scanning of a corrupted (incomplete) file.

6

Yep, it appears that I have or Earthlink did it for me. I even changed everything I could change just to see if I could activate a problem … but nothing … no errors, no warnings, etc.

I am at a loss as to your problem. I sure hope we can fix it! :-\

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Problem is reproducible. My Avast event log is flooded with these warnings and errors. there’s both a warning and an error logged for each attempt to access a file .feed-ms. - even if i globally exclude scanning files of this type (*.feed-ms) i get this error.

XP Pro SP2, IE7 Beta2 Preview.

8

The Exclusion you have added only works in the on-demand scans, you missed the bit except for resident protection. So you need to add this to the standatd shield.

Standard Shield, Customize…, Advanced and add the same file mask.

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OK, the problem is caused by the internal format of the *.feed-ms files. Simply said, they’re standard OLE files - but with some twist added to them. :slight_smile:

Therefore, avast submits the error entry, meaning “error while scanning OLE file”.

We will fix this in the next program update.

Meanwhile, you can add the *.feed-ms mask to the scan exception in the Standard Shield provider (double-click the avast (a) ball tray icon → click “Details >>” → scroll to Standard Shield → double click its icon → go to the Advanced page and insert the mask to the exception list).

Thanks
Vlk