Standard Shield (on-access module) question!

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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This line…

Created and modified files: ACE,ARC,ARJ,BZIP2,CAB,COM,GZIP,PST,RAR,TAR,ZIP,ZOO,ECE

…is useless in Home Edition unless you changed archive scanning parameters in avast! system file.

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oops, you’re right.
Can you post that changes, please?

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Okay, setting the shield to “high” now detects infected files within a zip file when trying to extract the files.

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Good! Thanks God!

But, do you use a Download Manager? If so, you can configure it to start ashquick.exe (without parameters) just after the download is finished…

Still waiting for Rejzor’s post ;D

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I just use the browser’s download manager.

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Now, finally when I download a compressed “bug” it gets detected right away. Here are the steps I took.

  1. Change Standard Shield to “High Sensitivity”.
  2. Add the ZIP extension in the “Additional Extensions:” in the Standard Shield.
  3. Open up the TASKS in Enhanced mode. Edit the Resident Protection! Click on the “Advanced Configuration” at the bottom left. Search for the Standard Shield → Packers. Check the ZIP packers.

And now avast should scream when you try to download either the eicar.zip or eicarcom2.zip files.

Faffy

PS: As I remember, I did the same thing on my home computer yesterday, and it did not work. I have to check that after work.