Missing Avast Files?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I did a full scan of my Windows 7 (64 bit) system today. There were no malware threats found. However, the scan produced an error log that said it could not find certail alwil files. I have attached a copy of the log.

Does this present any problem?

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what type of scan did you do…a custom scan ?

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No, it was a full scan of my C drive.

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So, your Avast! folder is MISSING files?

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Does this present any problem?
think not, what you should worry about is when/if it find malware
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Try a full Re-install? Try it out, might work… :wink:

Guide:

  1. Uninstall Avast! and restart
  2. Download this http://public.avast.com/~forejt/aswClear.exe
  3. Then download these Softwares
    CCLEANER:
    http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download/standard
    DISK DEFRAG:
    http://download.cnet.com/Auslogics-Disk-Defrag/3000-2094_4-10567503.html?part=dl-6267754&subj=dl&tag=button
  4. After installing this, run the ASWCLEAR.exe and restart
  5. After Restart, run CCLEANER - You will see to the left there is TAPS. Look for “REGISTRY” Now, clean up Registry(CCleaner will ask you if you wanna backup the registry - Just save the Registry file in a new folder)
  6. Now run Auslogics Disk Defrag - This will clean your system up(look for errors etc) but also speed your PC up.
  7. Restart
  8. Reinstall Avast!

Report back if any issues. :wink:

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If you expand the column headings, you will see the full path and I believe that you would have found that it was pointing to an old VPS folder, as the virus definitions are updated it creates a new one. These older folders are periodically removed, you will have the current one and probably the one before that (a sort of fall back I guess). So it looks like this house keeping has occurred during the scan.

So I believe you really have nothing to do.

Edit: See second image showing the partial contents of one of these folders and you will see they match the so called files not found.

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Thanks to everyone for you replies.

Other programs began acting strangely so I reinstalled the operating system (Windows 7) and Home and Student. Tried again and everything worked fine.

;D

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You’re welcome.