Hi Vik,
You can d/l the file (a test virus file, not a real virus) from www.eicar.com. The file name is eicar.com.
Avast shows the proper path to get to the “virus” but says cannot process.
I drilled down to the file itself but Avast would not repair, says cannot process. It would delete though.
Les
Yes, that works, but it would be better if I could delete de infected attachment like always. Anyway, I just sent the message to your email address. I hope you can find a solution to this problem 
Bye, Lito.
Well it says I have to reply although I have nothing to reply to. Instead I’ll ask why is that little doo-dad tell me I’m being watched and my ISP is attbi.com. My ISP is NOT attbi.com so evidently I’m not being watched too closely.
Les
You’re being paranoic ;D lol
Lito.
You could be right, Lito!
Cheers,
Les
Lito: there is a bug in avast! which causes for some specific attachment (specific name) problems with deleting in e-mails. Problem is currently
fixed and patch will be in the next program update. Sorry for this faul ;-( Thanks for co-operation…
I think that other problems decribed here have the same reason… Please try it after update (I don’t know exactly when it will be, but I hope that soon) and if some problems, please contact me!
Pavel, thanks to you for this great work. You and all the team make me love Avast! on my first month with your software
http://www.appzplanet.com/forum/html/emoticons/wub.gif
Best regards, Lito.
Thanks for the help everyone. Anxiously awaiting update.
Les
I received win32: Swen and saved it to my desktop (as virus.eml), scanned it, got the usual virus warning but unable to perform any action on the file. No error message, just nothing happens. Can delete it manually, but Avast shoud be able to do it. No problems with Eicar. Do you want a sample, if so will I send it to support@…?
Hi Judith, I think it would better to send it to vlk at avast dot com.
Cheers, Lito.
Hi Pavels,
here’s another one…:
just got Swen.A = Gibe.C
twice per Email;
the RS of uptodate avast4.1home did pick up the saved .exe-attachment ok;
but nothing in the 2nd virus-mail, where the attachment is hidden in Netscape
→ I saved this email both as extensionless and as .EML-file (both 144 KB and quite clearly infected as told by other scanners including avast quick)
RS is set to standard plus scanning on opening and creating for the extension-list:
This is how it appears in the config-panel:
COM,EXE,DLL,SYS,SCR,OV?,VXD,386,BIN,BAT,CMD,DO?,XL?,PP?,HT*,HLP,CH?,{},ASP,CLA,CPL,CSS,INF,JS*,LNK,MS?,OCX,PDF,PIF,PO?,PRC,RTF,SHS,VB?,VSD,WS?,SWF,AD?,ASX,BAS,CRT,INS,ISP,MDB,MDE,PCD,PRF,REG,SCF,SCT,SHB,URL,EML,NWS)
you see -EML is in the list, but not working; do maybe " " spaces have to be there ??
the Quiscanner picks up the ext.free and the EML-file alright, but when told to delete, doesn’t do anything, not even an error message…
RS-detection & actions on eicar.com ar as they should be…
(Netscape7.02 D on Win2k-all critical Updates)
???
P.S.: Mail protectiosn not set up (IMAP/SSL and don’t need it anyway); only SS + P2P + IM running
Would you like any virus- or Setup-/log-files ? or is this included in the above bugfix ?
Hi,
send this e-mail to sedina@asw.cz. I will check it. thanks! If I understood it correctly, you have 2 problems:
is it true?
thanks!
Hi Pavel,
that’s true (well, I didn’t expect RS to pick up the extension-less file when I use the default extensionlist;
but for sure the .EML-File)
I’ll send the files 2nite
and btw: how do I set the mask for extension-less files to be scanned in RS
on creating or reading ?
wasn’t there a bug in 4.0 or something ?
or is it already included inherently ?