Is the File System Shield required to be installed for the rest of the Shield components to function?
I’m just wondering (curiousity).
I have the File System, Web, Network and Behavior Shield’s installed.
I would get rid of Panda Cloud AV Free before I disable File System Shield.
Oh, sorry. I forgot to update my Sig.
Panda Cloud AV was uninstalled before installing Avast.
The file system shield could be considered the backbone of the antivirus, personally I feel you have the absolute minimum settings in terms of installed shields.
However, I would suggest you also have the Mail Shield running and set to High sensitivity, even if you don’t use an email client (but just web mail). The reason, trojan spambots come with their own very small smpt program to send spam. Should a trojan spambot get past your defences (hidden or undetected) the first indication of it might be the mali shield alerting to the multiple spam emails being sent.
The IM and P2P shields are OK to leave uninstalled only if you aren’t using any IM or P2P applications.
Note: On the Behaviour Shield, since you are using win7 64bit, it is a bit redundant at this moment in time as there are no behaviour rules for 64bit OSes. This is due to improve in avast 5.1 when it is released later this year.
If you want a cloud scanner, I’ll go for Comodo Firewall + Defense+ (with sandboxing and cloud technology).
But if you need to choose between avast and Panda, avast for sure.
He already has if you read his last post he uninstalled it before installing avast, but hasn’t updated his signature.
I know that… I’m posting a suggestion. I’m not troubleshooting it. Why do you think I post this way?
You want pranaygtr to suffer all the BSODs you get with Comodo ???
Can you help me? Maybe a AIS Sandbox conflict with Comoto Time Machine
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=61503.msg538361#msg538361
Thanks, but no thanks. I’d rather steer clear from all Comodo software (except TrustConnect).
Could you give me an example of how this would happen?
The example is in the quoted text, a trojan getting past avast as it either didn’t detect it or it was hidden by rootkit.
There are a number of trojan spambot occurrences running under the TDSS rootkit, there are examples in the viruses and worms forum.
Thanks.
I was playing around with avast earlier. Just simply testing something with harmless Eicar and Trojan Simulator.
With FS Shield installed:
- Both Eicar (.com) and TrojSim (.zip) were detected.
Without FS Shield installed:
- Eicar (.com) was detected and TrojSim (.zip) was not.
I don’t understand ???
Neither do I understand, as I have no idea what you were doing, e.g. exactly how you ran your test.
I don’t know if you mean disabled or uninstalled:
Edit: There is a snag in the current version I believe that even when you disable the FSS it still scans.
See http://www.avast.com/release-history
One of the items fixed with v 5.0.677 was
fixed a bug where the File System Shield was scanning some files even after being disabled
Ah, thanks for that, I wasn’t sure which build this was about, original post edited.
Oops sorry, it was latest build (as of 10th Sept, 2010).
Yes, I meant uninstalled. 
How do you know the file was scanned ?
I would have though it impossible to scan if the shield had been uninstalled, given that the bug of files still being scanned when the FSS was disabled was meant to be squashed in this 677 build.
I believe you are right, that FSS is required.
Sorry for the late reply. I was using Panda Cloud AV Pro in the time since I last posted.
I am now back to using Avast!5 Free.
Yes, it is essential.
Welcome back to the avast fold.
@ pranaygtr
[b]Conclusion: Facebook is a malware breeding ground.[/b]
How do you know ???