Registry Scan in AVAST 4.8 Home

RE: Avast 4.8 Home

It has the basic scans of ‘quick,std,thorough’ and memory/start-ups.
There appears to be no reference to scanning (selected?) registry files as
AVG 7.5 does in their ‘system scan’.
The only ‘semi-major’ ‘con’ I have seen on download.com re: avast 4.8 Home
is limited scheduled scan capability. That is not a major concern of mine.
There seem to be a few issues re: AVG 8.0 Free that make me want to consider
AVAST 4.8 as the better (check out download.com for that).
So, bottom line am leaning to AVAST.
However, any new info on registry scanning in 4.8 (or newer/beta versions)?

And what exactly should this “registry scanning” do?

Well hopefully NOT remove the immunisation entries legitimately placed there by Sbybot and at least one other antispyware product as was the case when I tried AVG v8 !

olddog …

you tried AVG V8?

I’m afraid the committee will have to meet and consider this indiscretion and judge your future.

Just kidding …

More seriously … it removed the immunization … without asking for consent?

The system scan in AVG 7.5, in addition to checking Startup files, boot sector and partition table,
scans about 60 registry entries for virus characteristics… Takes about 30 seconds.

60 entries in 30 seconds? That’s very slow.
Anyway, I don’t see what “virus characteristics” should mean here…

Both Spybot and SpywareBlaster insert immunisation entries in Restricted sites & Cookie blocking of Internet Explorer, Windows Hosts file and the less visible ActiveX ‘Kill Bits’ portion of the registry. AVG v8 saw these legitimate immunisation registry entries as “hacks” and automatically moved them to the virus vault, thus removing part of the immunisation.

This is explained in the AVG forum in the post
“Re: Spybot S&D and SpywareBlaster w/ AVG 8
Posted by: rdsok - Moderator (IP Logged)
Date: April 27, 2008 01:27AM”

see http://freeforum.avg.com/read.php?12,121766,backpage=5,sv=

A user could of course configure the program to prompt rather than automatically move them to the virus vault.

Not precisely very smart ;D