why am I not picking up anything on scan ? Where as I run a quick scan with MALWARE AND pick up several . shouldnt Avast be picking up something ? Thanks Roz
I have IE , WINDOWS XP
-= I don’t quite understand what you meant in the part “Where as I run a quick scan with MALWARE AND pick up several . shouldnt Avast be picking up something ?”…
-= Try testing your avast installation’s functionality with an EICAR Test File… If avast sends an alert… Then, your avast is functional…
EICAR Test File: www(.)eicar(.)org/download/eicar.com.txt
-= By the way, a good partner of avast: Malwarebytes Antimalware
Maybe, He was trying to say this:
“Why am I not picking up anything on a full scan? Where as I ran a quick scan, it picked up several malware…shoudnt avast be picking up something with the full scan?”
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Pls clarify ur message^^
Also, Pls correct me if im wrong^^
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Maybe what “Where as I run a quick scan with MALWARE AND pick up several” means Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware (MBAM)?
avast! is a good anti virus application.
MBAM is a good addition to an anti virus application as it specifically detects the latest malware.
Its called Layered Defence as the malware has become so pervasive that only one tool can not be relied on to be 100% effective in malware detection and removal.
yes that is what I mean . a quick scan . Now for a stupid question is Malware the program you run with Avast.
but when I run a scan with Avast nothing comes up. thanks
Hummmmmmmmm now I and confusing myself. sorry 
I’m still not sure what you mean, but if you do a quick-scan (right-click a file and scan it…) its the most intensive way to scan your files…
If you want the full scan also to be so intensive you have to set the intensity-level to thorough and also tick the archives to be scanned.
See the picture…
yours
onlysomeone
Looks like a bit of clarification is necessary:
avast! anti virus has a Quick scan that you can select after choosing which scan area you want scanned that can take about 15 or more minutes on my systems and if nothing comes up then the system is clean a far as avast! is concerned.
MBAM has a Quick scan that looks on the hard drive for the most likely spots for the latest malware infections that takes about 2 minutes on my systems.
If MBAM is detecting something then post its log here but I would let it remove what it finds.
yes I run the quick scan with the one that Onlysomeone has pictured . and nothing comes up. Then I run a different scan with AD-WARE AND about 14 cookies comes up . why isnt avast picking them up. Roz
yes I run the quick scan with the one that Onlysomeone has pictured . and nothing comes up. Then I run a different scan with AD-WARE AND about 14 cookies comes up . why isnt avast picking them up. Roz
-= Quick scan…? Onlysomeone pictured out a Thorough scan with Archived files enabled… You might have been mistaken…?
-= We recommend you to use an antispyware [like Malwarebytes Antimalware] not because it is better than avast or vise versa but simply, to let the two, three or even four [though 2 antispywares & an antivirus is enough] assist each other… If something slips avast’s defense, let the next line of defense do their task…
-= If I am not mistaken, “Layered Defense” is how it was called…
Cookies are in most cases not dangerous and that’s the reason why avast! doesn’t alert on them (avast! only alerts if they are dangerous)…
So these cookies are no security risk in my opinion.
-= You may consider clearing Temporary Internet Files before scanning to get rid of the cookies…
AD-WARE is just about useless these days and 14 cookies are nothing to worry about as many sites use cookies for automated log in.
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