zip/rar files

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Pardon me if this a silly question,but can you scan compressed files successfully with anti virus/antispyware,or are they inaccessable.Cheers

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You can scan with AVAST!

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Hello :slight_smile:

Yes, you can scan zip/rar files with avast! (or with any other av) :wink:
To scan archives files with the Simple User Interface just check the option “Scan archive files” in the interface :wink:

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avast can scan many different types of packed files, zip and rar being only two.
Where/when do you want zip/rar files scanned ?

I say this because I don’t feel it a worthwhile exercise during an on-demand scan as archive files are inert until opened, the contents extracted and a file executed. The standard shield should have scanned any extracted file before it is executed.

There are some issues with ‘rar’ archives if they are compressed more than once avast may not be able to scan inner compressions and may report it as corrupt. Not something to work about based on the previous paragraph.

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Maybe this will help ?

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Thanks for the quick replies,the zipped files are on a dvd,they are games.Many thanks :slight_smile:

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Actually, I’m not aware of such a thing… any details? :wink:

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I thought that this explanation crops in the forums when archives (often RAR) are reported as unable to be scanned, ‘archive is corrupt’ in on-demand scan.

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I think that if a RAR archive is reported is corrupt, it’s corrupt. OK, I admit that for multi-volume archives (possibly even packed one-by-one into another archive), strange things might happen (reporting some files as decompression bombs, for example)… but I think “corrupted” shouldn’t be reported for ordinary RAR archives.

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Thanks for the further expansion, excuse the pun ;D