I just downloaded Avast 4.1 yesterday, and it has a Simple interface. I’m at work now, this is my home puter.
Its a 900mhz Amd,Win98SE, I had NAV 2003, but uninstalled it yesterday and installed Avast 4.1, but also I have Sygate 5.5 free version.
Can someone tell me how to Scan, set it up properly, I installed it with no problems. I’m trying to remember what it looks like. There were 4 different things on the left that it protects against. I had 2 icons in my systray and I merged them into one.
One problem I did have was Trying to Run scandisk and the defragger. It wouldnt do either, until i went into MSconfig, Startup and uncheck them, rebooted, them my scandisk and the degragger work. Am I do something wrong here or is some setting, or something?
Almost anything that is writing to your HDD could cause the defrag program to start over again. Avast! needs to create a backup set of files on your system called VRDB. This could be what is causing your defrag to stop and start . It only creates a VRDB once every three weeks.
Double clicking the blue icon ball in the system tray will show what providers are installed and running on your machine. Right clicking on the blue ball will give you a menu. Selecting Start Avast! Antivirus will bring up the scanner skin and controls for the scanner. Right clicking on the scanner skin will bring up the program menu system.
I’ll try that, I guess that will create the VRDB . I just know that my screen shot look different than on Cnet screenshots for this 4,1 , it says 4.1.324, is this this the same I have?
danny, sometimes the CNET webpage won’t be updated as fast as avast! updates… but the majority of the times the link will give you the last version…
Anyway, why don’t you run the update for ‘program’ in the system tray icon menu?
Do you have any problem with uninstalling Norton? We can help you…
I figured it out partly, I right clicked the Icon in tray and hit Start Avast, which I had not done. I got the right set up and look. I set it to scan all of C drive. The box came up with a list, starting with my computer, then my C drive, so I chose that.
Is that the best?
Yes I got the Nav uninstalled ok, plenty of experience on that one.
Question, Should the buttons say what they are. I mean when you put your mouse arrow over them, should it say what the button is?
Mine doesn’t. Its no big deal, I can figure it out.
Are there any other settings I need to do? Or is everything set by default?
How do you set it to auto update itself and setup weekly scans?
I suggest at least once a month you scan all your HDD (all partitions)…
Daily, you can scan just the floppy or CD that you use. Oh, keep the resident providers enabled (you’ll be protected when you are connected to Internet).
Good, me too. But test your installation against www.eicar.org files (test virus not a real one).
Not all the buttons have tips. I translated the available tooltips of avast! some months ago and I can tell you it’s not the first part of the program to be updated as it is not essential. Anyway, that seems you have less resources available when you put the mouse over a button… Try again with the computer not so stressed. And try to change you skin to see if you get the tooltips.
You would have to enter the SMTP server address, given to you by your Internet provider. I don’t know the server address, so I can’t tell you more.
Anyway, this settings are used for sending virus alerts (if you create some), sending files from Chest, etc - so if you don’t need such special options, you can leave these items empty.
