One was fasec viruse and another one that starts with V. Question: Does avast home demo automatic remove the infected files? With the black screen on last night it took all night to run vista and 516mb ram lol. It stopped when it found a viruse asked what to do i clicked delete? Should i have sent it to chest? I would like to remove any viruses regardless of the file i want it gone before i load up 12 gauge and shoot my computer lol. VISTA and 516mb ram = pain .
Always send to Chest (quarantine) because false positive detections are possible from any AV.
Vista needs 2GB ram to run smoothly, so I’ve heard.
Did you try a boot time scan with avast!? Right click the scanner screen, select ‘schedule a boot time scan’ if enabled and reboot when requested. (Or open the tab at the top left of the scanner screen and select the boot time option from there.)
XP struggles with 256MB (what i’ve got) so I am surprised that vista (much more memory intensive) even runs with what you have…
Send to Chest is safer than directly deleting it. Which is the file path and name?
Of course, with only 512Mb of RAM you’ll have a very very very slow computer running Vista.
XP will run on 256MB (that’s what my old computer came with)- just don’t try and run more than one application at a time.
yep, normally I am very impatient, but when it comes to this pc, I’m happy to sit and wait a while. (and listen to the hard drive melt. ;)) weird…
I also have minimal programs installed and try to use portable versions
One of the reasons I am still with avast, it’s very low memory footprint