MALWARE FOUND. DON'T PANIC!

Hey, that’s great but why the pop up each time? I started a thorough scan and took off for a while. When I came back 2 hours later, I had a Malware Found window after only 41% of the scan. A while later, the same thing happened again. Why in the heck doesn’t Avast finish the scan first before announcing bugs or is there a way that you can set the scan to do that. Who has time to monitor complete scans in case an infection is found?

These automated options are only available in the Pro version. This is a limitation of the Home (free) version that it has interactive input requirement, there have to be differences in the Home/Pro version and this is one of them, the programmers have to eat ;D

In the Home version you can check the option “Don’t show this window again” when the first virus warning appears, select the “No action” button. This way, no action will be taken and you will given the results at the end of the scan (and you can perform actions from there). Over time this will become less of an issue, as the resident, on-access scanners are designed to intercept infection before it gets into your system.

  • There was one suggestion to place something like the eicar test virus at the start of the first drive to be scanned in a file like ~a-eicar.com that should soon be detected and you can do the option “Don’t show this window again” when the first virus warning appears, select the “No action” button. So you should have a list of files waiting your action.