I was reading that NOD32, another AV, doesn’t scan locked or system files. I tried doing a manual scan in C:\Documents And Setting\Network Service and it scanned along quite fast, but at the end the scan simply disappeared. This was a scan by right clicking on the folder and telling Avast! to scan it. I looked at the log files but it doesn’t mention anything about skipping or errors on locked files or system files in use. Does Avast! scan a system file in use, or is it too password protected or locked by the OS?
Right click scan is ashquick. I don’t believe it’s logged.
To see the results, right click the “a” icon, select program settings and place a checkmark beside "show results explorer extention "
On this machine,I tried some .sys files and avast scanned them.
As for password protected files, no. Av’s can’t scan them because they don’t know the password to open them. With avast you will get a message similar to “unable to scan:file is password protected”
Most security programs password protect their signature and quaratine files to prevent other security programs from detecting them.
Thank you oldman, for the young fresh advise to another “old man”
Yes I can understand that password protected files would pose a problem to any AV, but I doubt there are many such files on my computer as I don’t password protect. I think that is more a NTFS funcion/ ability, and not available with FAT32.