Hi, Avast by default will alert you of any threats. The scan will be interrupted when the box(es) appear. Just click delete, tell it to permanently delete the file and ensure that the file will get deleted upon reboot, click delete and it'll carry on. You can tell it not to show you the alerts in the future from within the alert boxes, but I'm not sure how to get it back short of a reinstall. I'll try and look into this. Hope that helps. -- Chris Hallsworth E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margaret Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 5:51 AM Subject: [Blind-Computing] Scanning with Avast?
> Hi All, > > I attempted my first scan with the free version of Avast yesterday and > the thing drove me nuts. > > I thought I chose hard drive, test archives, and thorough scan and in > over 10 hours of actual time only got to 17% and I think it found > something > like 157 things. It seemed like every 20 seconds it wanted something sent > to the chest and, if I'm using the thing properly, you have to baby sit > the > thing and can't leave it unattended. My patience wore out last night and > I > left it to do whatever it did and, when I came back down, it was still at > the same percentage I'd left it at. > > I ran AVG 7.5 before my tech remotely installed Avast and a scan of the > hard drive only found 4 false positives and it scanned the whole C drive > in > something like 2 hours. > > I'm running JAWS 9.0.2169 on XP Home with SP2. The latest version of > JAWS seems to have some focus problems with OE 6, so I decided to try > Avast > before going with AVG 8 free since I didn't know if I'd keep using > 9.0.2169. > > Am I trying to scan correctly? Are other people having this many > "infections?" > > Any help would be greatly appreciated, > > Margaret > > > Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: > http://www.jaws-users.com > Visit the Blind Computing home page at: > http://www.blind-computing.com > Address for the list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject > or body of a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Use the following form in order to contact the management team > http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php > If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the > following address: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
