DavidR
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I agree with Technical, ignorance is bliss. This will take some programming.
How do you go about selecting the correct scanning tool/packer for a file without a file extension, you have to identify the file type before you can check it for infection.
Or you have to do a simple text file scan (as Technical said) which is unlikely to be effective and miss infected files in packed/compressed form.
Yes some other programs do it, but how effective is it what type of scan are they doing. Just because they do it doesn’t necessarily make it better.
Firefox has only got to 1.0 official release, you are surely not saying that time should be spent trying to follow beta developments of firefox when the the final version could be vastly different.
That is time and money wasted (programmers have to be paid), it stops regular development of avast, offered free to you and I for non business use.