I think that the abort would relate to the deepscreen scan and not the file. I would also expect deepscreen to be activated again if you try to run the file again.
Thanks for the response. That worries me.
I actually didn’t initiate the file, I went to a website and the .exe immediately started running, and the deepscan popped up. I wasn’t sure what to do, I wanted avast to terminate the file so I hit abort. avast came back and said the file was ok, but I doubt that. What kind of website runs an .exe when you get there?
I checked the site with virustotal and online scan, and that came back as malware site. I was suspicious as soon as I got to the website, because the screen was full of garbage characters, so I suspected some kind of binary code hidden in the stream. That’s why I wanted to terminate the file as soon as deepscan popped.
I took your suggestion and enabled Hardening.
Is there a way for you terminate a file while it’s in deepscan?