scan on execution only?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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is there a way to set the AV so it only alerts when a bad file is RUN? (as in, double-click for exe files)

I know nod32 has that option

and avast has it too but its horribly buggy
(I’m testing with different bad test files, and avast pops an alert everytime I just RIGHT-CLICK a bad file! and sometimes even when I OPEN A FOLDER with a bad file in it! even tho I disable ‘scan when open’. this slows down my pc a lot :-\

is there a way to make the on-execution only work?

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Please answer this so we know what you have http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=121753.msg930116#msg930116

  1. What is your OS?
  2. What is your processor?
  3. What is your processor speed?
  4. How much RAM do you have?

You really need to be more forthcoming with information for us to give you the assistance you need.

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if u must know I got XP, cpu is AMD athlon 2ghz (I think) and I got 1gb DDR ram

oh and btw what’s that got to do with my question here? ??? (about the file shield bug)

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Adding at the very least one more gig of ram would be a big help.
There is no bug in the file shield. 8)

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Avast needs more than 1gb ram?!!

if this was Kaspersky or something then maybe (cause that one’s a resource hog that’s why I avoid it) but Avast is suppose to be light on resources ???

did you even read the 1st post? its IMPOSSIBLE to set file shield to “scan on execution” only

(try it yourself if you dont believe it)

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avast does not need 1GB RAM but depending what else is running on your machine your processor may get bogged down.
For the best security the file shield scans when opening, writing and execution. The final decision as to how much or, how little
security you need is ultimately yours and yours alone. You can pare down avast to a point that it becomes useless. But if that’s
what you want go for it. If I were you I’d invest in more RAM. :slight_smile: