system
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Hi,
After installing avast home, I wanted to test it.
So, I installed the test virus of eicar (http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm).
It was not detected by the permanet shield, of which I adapted the settings to scan opened files, then it detected the test virus immediately. OK 
Then I started a full scan manually, and the test virus was detected again, but this stopped the process:
- question, how do I just get a report or automatically quarantine the contaminated file without stoppong the scan?
After the scan, I tried to view the log (log viewer), and it appeared empty, although the āsetup and updateā part is plenty of messages
2) question, is it normal that the log viewer āprogram runā is empty in the home edition?
I also found a HUGE log āsimple user interface.txtā at the place I configured it to be, but this one is too big.
3) question, how to filter and only record files with problems to that log? I used a perl script to remove the OK and skipped because settings, and got 11k instead of 240 MEGA 
see joined script
I noticed that some files could not be scanned, because of a permission denied, do I have to run the scan as administrator?
- question how to schedule the scanning every night?
As soon as at least question 1 is answered, I can schedule the scanning in windows task scheduler (what when it promps at the end?),.
Then I will recommend avast as a good home antivirus solution.
avlula (teacher computer courses)
There is no other way, I suppose, to detect the file as the eicar test file must be opened for detection. This is how the test worksā¦
I think you can only do it manually at the Home version. Pro version allow the automatic procedure.
Do not mess ālogā with āreportā. Log are for internal information (setup, load, installation, running erros and so on). Reports are for virus scanning operations and to inform the state of the files scanned.
Yes it could be. If your installation in good and avast is running smoothly in your system, you can stay a lot of time without any log for error! ;D
Again, you are talking about the report file of Simple User Interface.
You can configure this at Settings > Reports > uncheck āokā files, for instance.
Depends. The majority of the cases you need to scan as administrator. But not all access trouble are related to this. Maybe some password protected files for instance. At administrator, no file will be with denied access.
Another feature of the Pro version.
Ufffā¦
how many questions⦠;D
system
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:-[ RTFM! ok I found the options to choose what to log and to disable confirmations in the settings.
Still not able to use warnings, when testing I get an āunknown errorā >:(
regards
igor0
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To a limited extent, you can do the scheduling of the scan using the Window Scheduler (and ashQuick.exe program).
Some files (swap, registry) cannot be accessed when the operating system is running - no matter if youāre administrator or not. Itās normal behavior - nothing to worry about.
Can you post a few examples of files (I mean their filenames) that give you āunknown errorā?
Can I add a comment, about the āhugeā report files?
Somewhere in the setup options relating to reporting ā and one of you can probably steer avlula to it faster than I can ā thereās an option tick-box to over-write previous reports. Iām guessing that if thatās not ticked, then new reporting is simply appended to the existing reports(s) rather than replacing it/them.
And of course if thatās the case, the report files would just keep getting bigger and bigger.
There are times, of course, that youād want the older info too, to compare with current results. But itās probably simpler to just rename the old file and compare the files side-by-side, rather than let them grow into a single āmonsterā.
Hey, thereās a thought for future versions (Home, that is, maybe itās already in Pro) ā how about an option to rename/backup/whatever the old report file before starting a new one? That way you would have them as separate files, if you need to compare them.
Best,
Mike
Great Mike, I did not think in this suggestion. You got your k@rma⦠;D
Avlula, could you answer Igorās questions? It will be very helpfull for us to know which files are doing this error (āunknown errorā).