No protection against LimeWire P2P?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi all,

Using Avast Home Edition build 4.1.268).

The P2P Shield claims to protect me from LimeWire, but this doesn’t seem to be happening. After a download via LimeWire I’d have thought that it would have been scanned by Avast, but it wasn’t. Is it broke or have I misunderstood something?

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  1. Why do you think it hasn’t been scanned?
  2. What OS are you using?

Thanks,
Vlk

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  1. Because Avast tells you what it’s scanned, & it isn’t scanning any P2P stuff (though it claims it should be)

  2. Windows XP Pro

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Any P2P or any LimeWire stuff? What version of LimeWire do you have?

Are you refering to the Last Scanned File item for the P2P shield?

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LimeWire is the only P2P prog I’ve used in anger, version is 3.5.8

To your second question, yes. This remains empty (& counters remain at 0) after a download

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Is the LimeWire program you use (the executable file) called limewire.exe?

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LimeWire.exe to be exact :slight_smile: (not sure if capitalisation is important to Avast)