system
1
I thought the new avast was to have a sensitivity option in between “normal” and “high”. Most customise the same/similar options as below so this would be a good default setting to add, making avast detect more “out of the box”.
scan files on open:
WS?,VBS,VBE,JS,JSE,HTA,WSF,WSH,SHS,SHB,HTM*
created/mod:
ACE,ARC,ARJ,BZIP2,CAB,COM,GZIP,PST,RAR,TAR,ZIP,ZOO,ECE
etc…
RejZoR
2
No,the archive scanning doesn’t work that way. It will treat them as normal binary files and will NOT scan actual content.
And the Normal/High Sensitivity was indeed changed.
Normal is now as High before (only selected extensions on open and copy/modify).
High now checks all files regardless of extension (on open and copy/modify)
igor0
3
I would really suggest not to put archive files into these boxes - it may have very bad impact on the system performance - not speaking of the fact that the archived files don’t be detected anyway unless you enable the corresponding packers in the resident protection task (Enhanced User Interface only).
system
5
ok thanks
from your link should I still put these in “scan files on open” box?
BAT,CHM,CMD,COM,CPL,CRT,DLL,EXE,HTA,HTM*,INF,INS,ISP,JS,JSE,LNK,MSC,MSG,MSI,OCX,PIF,PIF,REG,SCR,SCT,SHB,SHS,SYS,VBE,VBS,WS?,WSC,WSF,WSH
igor0
6
Well, that’s better. I still think it’s a big overkill, but if you really want to scan almost everything, it’s your choice 
Thanks Igor… 8)
More than this is only scanning everything 8)