Why does Avast home version ignore it when I UNcheck D: partition for a scan? If I want to skip D: partition it goes ahead and does that anyway? This happens on two different home machines: one is XPhome and the other is W2K. On the XPhome machine D:\ is a recovery drive and other machine it’s got 20GB of mp3 files. In either case I’d like to control when and if these partitions get scanned.
How exactly did you start the scan and how did you uncheck the D: partition?
I right click the systray icon and start the normal green and white box that runs the memory scan. That completes and then I click the button on the main skin to specify “Quick, standard or thorough scan” and check the checkbox for archive files (yes). Then I click the folder icon that brings up the areas to scan. There are different check boxes for C: and D:. I check the C: drive and leave the checkbox for D: open. The program automatically fills in the checkboxes for My Documents, Shared Documents and Owners Documents. Then I click OK return to the main skin and click the start button.
Well I just did a couple of tests selecting sub folders of C: and stopped after scan, also selected C: and left my D:, F: and G: unchecked and it just scanned the C: drive and sub folders of C:
Hmm… are you sure it really scans the whole D: drive? If you go to the program options, turn on the creation of the Report file and let the “OK files” be included there - after you perform the scan (of the “C: drive”), are the D: drive files in the report? If yes, what is the last C: drive part in the report?
Ok when set to archive files: no, quickscan, c:\ checked the report shows no files on D: were checked. More testing to follow