Is there a way for me to set up Avast 4.8 so that it does not stop every time it finds a virus etc? As i usually scan when away from the computer I would like to have it completely scan then tell me what it found then I can decide what to delete etc.
Yea thats the problem on avast scan. Avast will not continue scan when it detected any virus. It will ask you to make an action on it and thats what im not really happy with avast scan but there’s a way I tried before to make avast continue scan and did the action automatically. I did a boot time scan when the first time it detected virus, it ask me to do an action on the object so I choose move all to chest(something like that) and it continue scan and automatically did an action whenever it detect any virus.
It would be useful if the scan finished then presented a list for action.
If Ignore All is selected, does that ignore all items found or just all instances of the one treated in that way?
These automated options are only available in the Pro version. This is a limitation of the Home (free) version that it has interactive input requirement, there have to be differences in the Home/Pro version and this is one of them, the programmers have to eat ;D
In the Home version (on-demand scan) you can check the option “Don’t show this window again” when the first virus warning appears, select the “No action” button. This way, no action will be taken and you will given the results at the end of the scan (and you can perform actions from there). Over time this will become less of an issue, as the resident, on-access scanners are designed to intercept infection before it gets into your system.
- There was one suggestion to place something like the eicar test virus at the start of the first drive to be scanned in a file like ~a-eicar.com that should soon be detected and you can do the option “Don’t show this window again” when the first virus warning appears, select the “No action” button. So you should have a list of files waiting your action.
@ Giraffe
Are you talking about the boot-time scan as that is the only location there would be Ignore All ?
If so that is different to what is being discussed here.
If you are talking about the on-demand scan, then the No Action and “Don’t show this window again” is good for all detections on that scan so you won’t have any interruptions after the first detection, but it is only for that scan and will be back to normal on the next scan.