I am keen to ensure my NAS does not have any viruses, and want to use Avast to scan them. I can do this for my Public Folder on the NAS, which does not require a username and password, but cannot do this for other folders which require username/password. When I try to run the scan on such folders, then Avast returns message “Some Files could not be scanned”. I would expect somewhere where I can specify login credentials for the folders, but have not seen this in the settings.
Any help on resolving this would be greatly appreciated.
avast! should (at least if the scan is invoked from the GUI, i.e. it’s not a scheduled scan) try to impersonate the currently logged-on user when scanning such folders - so if the current user has already mapped those shares and entered the password, it could work. However, I guess the problem might be that the mapping happens later - after the AvastUI.exe process has been started shortly after the logon - and the process doesn’t see those shares created later. In that case, the UI would have to be restarted (i.e. the AvastUI.exe process killed - which would require the self-defense to be disabled first - and then started again). No easy way, I’m afraid (and even if it works, it’s kinda “unsupported”… the scan is performed in a service that normally doesn’t have access to these shares, and even though I tried to make it work, there’s no guarantee everything works 100% as expected).
That’s a real shame this is not a supported feature… would be very useful.
Any suggestion of other products which are Free where folders on a NAS can be scanned? I still want to use avast, but even if I could have something else which is run once in while on the NAS would make me feel more comfortable!
Well, “very useful”… the vast majority of users, especially home users, don’t really have such a network to scan - so the usefulness would be very limited.
As for other free products… really don’t know. I don’t think scanning of remote paths is something where the focus is; you may find a product where scanning of the network shares will work - provided the shares are already mapped and accessible for the current user. I don’t really believe you find a product where you could specify the username and password to access such paths - but I might be wrong, of course, I’m just guessing.
In avast! Professional and IS, you could probably use the command-line scanner to scan the already accessible paths (the scanner is started later, i.e. it shouldn’t suffer from the problem of starting before the shares are mapped - and it runs under the currently logged-on user’s account).
