Avast 6 Internet Security just ran its scheduled hump day scan and revealed several viruses all linked with the Malware Bytes real time protection, or perhaps they are viruses anyone have any ideas?
Zero FPs as you must surely seem from other such topics.
- Detections in Memory - My guess is that you are doing a Custom scan in which you have elected to scan Memory and that all these detections are in memory or are listings of files that can’t be scanned. Since they aren’t physical files they can’t be moved to the chest, deleted, etc. so there is no action that can be taken, hence the Apply button being greyed out.
The detections in memory are frequently other security applications loading unencrypted virus signatures into memory. Having set off a scan of memory by an antivirus application looking for virus signatures, don’t be too surprised if it finds some in memory.
So if you can give some examples of the items in the list and the type of scan you did it will help us to help you.
Apologies, must have been the second time I have done this. Yes it was a custom scan and memory scan was ticked off, not sure how to supply you an example, I simply left and when returned the scheduled scan was complete and these items were what came up, not sure why universe sandbox has passworded files.
Password protection is generally it will be product protection. You don’t get that problem if you don’t scan archives, as they are inert until you unzip them and try to run the contents, long before that the file system shield would have scanned any files at risk of infection.
No need for an example of the scan settings (can be done in an image also, but personally I see no reason to use anything other than Quick and Full System scans.
- With a resident on-access antivirus like avast, the need for frequent on-demand scans is much depreciated. For the most part the on-demand scan is going to be scanning files that would be otherwise be dormant or inert. If they were active files then the on-access file system shield would be scanning them before being created, modified, opened or executed.
I have avast set to do a scheduled weekly Quick scan, set at a time and day that I know the computer will be on. If for some reason my system wasn’t on, no big deal I will catch up on the next scheduled scan.
Thank you for the information, I thought Tightening up and scanning deep and hard every week would be good, but I see where you coming from, I’ll make sure to lower it to a weekly quick scan.
You’re welcome, I have found that to be more than adequate. Unless you have any suspicions, etc. then a full or boot-time scan.