Chris,
I hadn't performed disk maintenance in way too long and decided to do a
"twofer" that might also give Avast less things to check. I deleted a slew
of old e-mail and some files and programs and did the disk maintenance. I
had a rotten headache by this time and had to call my tech about a loop in
Word 2000 that I couldn't get out of. He worked on that and I asked him to
look at Avast and see what he could see in the chest and to get rid of it so
I wouldn't have to spend another 8 hours for it to find the same stuff all
over again. He said there were 18 items in the chest. I could swear that
I'd put multiple times more than that in since Avast was literally sounding
every 30 seconds or so and wanting me to take some action before it would
proceed. I don't know if the fact that my clock was off meant we'd lost
power. It had been windy and it was possible, but the clock is old and has
been off a couple times in the last several days. If the UPS was beeping, I
slept through it.
About two minutes after I hung up with my tech, I got a mail delivery
error message in OE. It cleared up on it's own after a couple of minutes,
but then appeared again. I took my aching head to bed and the problem
hadn't cleared up when I got back to the computer several hours later. It
was an "unknown error" and mentioned Avast in the wording. I could get web
pages to load, but couldn't send or receive mail. A Google search brought
an inquiry from someone else who was asking about the same error message on
his parents' machine, but the moderator had either blocked replies or there
weren't any after 30 days, so I didn't get a fix. I tried the good old
reboot and am getting mail again.
I had the same Word problem before I rebooted, but my head still hurts
and it's the least of my current problems.
My tech is an AVG user, but he thought test archives shouldn't be
checked and only hard drives should be. What does test archives do? What
would happen if I permanently deleted what Avast found and it did turn out
to be something real instead of a false positive? Most of all, do you
really have to sit there the entire time and take some action every 30
seconds while Avast thinks it's found something? I've previously used both
Norton Anti-Virus and AVG and with both of them you could do something else
while they scanned the drive and could periodically check on the progress.
Thanks,
Margaret
"Chris Hallsworth" wrote:
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
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----- 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
>
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