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Erm...yeah it is...

http://www.storage.nab622.com/nab622/avast_scanning.PNG

Haven't you ever seen avast kill viruses before they finish downloading?

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Keyword: "resident"

We both know that while Avast has a brilliant on-access scanner, it's resident scanner couldn't find a trojan horse on an otherwise-empty 4gb hard drive unless you ran a boot-time scan.

Still, if one gets a resident virus while Avast is running in the first place, it's almost exclusively due to their own stupidity since Avast blocks any and all uncontrollable threats. (Yeah, I'm talkin' to all you folks who use keygens and cracks. Seriously, if you gonna use that crap, at least run it on a VPC!)

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Ok, now you have completely spun my head in circles three times over and turned it upside down and inside out. What in the world are you saying...? XD

Would that be because I edited this post after you replied? http://forums.filefront.com/sw-jk3-r...ml#post4864076

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Nope. I'm saying that Avast can prevent infections, but it's not very good at curing them.

Think of it more as a vaccine.

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Combofix is a great cure. :) It managed to delete several instances of Trojan Vundo on its own, while Norton 2006 and HijackThis could not.

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You...do realize just how impractical it is for an antivirus program to actively scan your entire computer while you're using it, right? No antivirus program will do that for you. There's a screen saver scanner for that very purpose.


Anything is better than Trend Micro products. I can present proof of that. And Norton's just huge...of all the paid programs, though, it's the only one that has a decent database. I say 'decent' because it still isn't great.


I think anyone who will pay for personal virus protection is crazy. It takes days or even weeks before an outbreak of a clever virus can be caught and a cure made for it, and by then it's too late because a few million computers are already rooted. So you basically pay for people to tell you you're safe, but really, your computer is silently doing someone else's dirty work on the internet. And some people *cough cough* get the short end of the stick when that happens.

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Yeah so that first part came out rather insulting...sorry about that, was in a hurry.

Apparently I'm confusing resident protection with something else...I know you know about scanning and how it works, Kouen, so please don't take what I said as an insult. I'm missing something bigtime in terminology, and it's causing major confusion on my end.

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Personally I use AVG Free, kills most viruses but if there is one motherbitch I tend to use uh.... Spybot- Search and Destroy or whatever it is, it even tells you what Virus it is and what it effects in your computer.

This sounds like it's going to infect your Temp Internet files- Use CCleaner, it can wipe anything and can even fix regestry issues.

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That actually happens an awful lot, usually because the professionals start throwing around inappropriate words to make their crap sound better than it actually is.

Point is, Avast is really more of a prevention measure. To perform a scan with it, your only option is boot-time scans if you want it to do it's job. Although perhap's thats for the best in any case, given that 90% of scanners that run background scans couldn't find a virus in a folder full of keygens. Silly plonkers, they are.

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Yup, that would explain my confusion. Figures. It's just like HDD companies that decided it was smart to give you a literal MB instead of a computer MB...