I’m trying to decide.
I would like AV software that gives me a choice of what to do with a suspicious file, rather than just deleting it. Sometimes quarantining can cause problems,too, since quarantined files don’t always get restored successfully. Does the free version of Avast! give you a choice when it identifies a problem? I would like a suspicious program stopped if it tries to execute, and that it be clearly identified and then I could make sure it’s not a false positive.
Citrine
Sure… the virus window message…
Delete, move, move to Chest (Quarantine), repair (if possible, for executable files), do nothing, continue scanning, etc.
Wonderful! Thank you!
Citrine
I assume we are talking only about emails here ?
What is your email program ?
Email options are a different ballgame when it comes to trying to restore and are most likely to fail, inserting an email into a database file is fraught with problems not only might it corrupt the database file thus loosing all emails in that database file (not what you want) and avast may not be able to work with all the different email programs database files.
If you don’t already know the email folders (in most email programs) are just files with multiple files crammed in there with some form of referencing where each email is within that (database) file. Messing with a database file could corrupt it with disastrous consequences, personally any email issues suspicious or suspicious I would just ‘delete’ rather than ‘continue’ or ‘block it,’ see example image.
Not that the suspicious alert differs from the standard shield alert for a file on your hard disk.
Also what was suspicious about the email as avast normally states that ?
Hi David, and thank you for your reply. Actually, I was talking about files in general. I lost a .dll from System 32 thanks to a false positive by another AV program. Even though the .dll got restored, it was no longer registered and it disappeared right away. Fortunately, it’s not one I’ve needed so far, otherwise I would go to MS and download it, although I can no longer get the original version I had.
You did bring up an interesting point, though, about e-mail. From your message, it looks like you could access it if you knew for sure it was allright to do so.
Thanks!
Citrine
Sometimes, the tool C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\REGSVR32.EXE could be used to register dll in Windows XP.
The sintax is: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\REGSVR32.EXE name.dll