Avast Free Antivirus
Even though I am aware that an On-Demand Full Virus Scan is ‘overkill,’ I still have a question.
Since both:
‘Virus Scan->Scan Now->Full Virus Scan’ (which runs a scan ‘immediately’)
and
'Create A Custom Scan->Full Virus Scan->Run Manually (which is not Once, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly but, instead, runs a scan on request).
*What is the difference between these 2 ‘Manual Full Virus Scan’ options?
That should be obvious, Full Scan, everything
Just take a rummage inside the Avast Settings, especially the Custom Scans section.
There are really a lot of options more than can easily be explained in the forum.
See Image example.
I think the custom Full Virus scan basically recreates the preset of the Full Virus scan. You can customize it, but if you don’t then it’s just the same as the preset.
Then use the Targeted scan as in my image and add the folders that you want to be scanned.
I hadn’t added any just to create the image.
Am I correct then:
‘Virus Scan->Scan Now->Full Virus Scan’=Runs a manual full scan immediately (but takes a longer amount of time).
Custom Full Virus Scan= Runs a manual scan immediately (and takes a shorter amount of time) and, further, the full scan can be customized with specific parameters so that only predefined areas are scanned. This option would be chosen if a ‘Full Scan’ is unnecessary.
*Incidentally, David, ‘obvious’ is subjective to the individual who already ‘knows’ the specified information.
If the two scans take significantly different times to complete, then they likely aren’t exactly the same.
Sorry but we are going down that rabbit hole again.
It rather depends what you have set in the ‘Custom’ Full Virus Scan, I can’t see your settings so I really can’t answer the question.
Essentially, all I wanted to know is if a Manual Full Virus Scan scans ‘everything’ (without the ability to set any parameters) whereas a Custom Scan Full Virus Scan has built-in parameters so that only pre-selected areas are scanned.
By definition if you change a setting that excludes things, it is no longer a Full Scan.
Even so, by default the Full Scan doesn’t (completely) scan every file. It chooses based on file type etc. It doesn’t fully scan every archive either.
You can change it to build a full scan that truly scans every single byte of everything, but expect it to then take a long time to complete.
Thx-The terminology has been cleared up.
