Chris,
From what you said, it sounds like all the items Avast was beeping at me
were archives that couldn't be accessed. I was asked if I wanted to delete,
rename, move to chest etc. I don't remember having clicked on the Action
button since I didn't know what it was.
My head is still bad and it's not a good time to learn a new program, so
I'll try to relax and go back to this later. By the way, while I was typing
this, Avast announced it had detected malware.
Thanks for the help. My problems are probably not caused by Avast, but
my own inability to think straight due to this head. Hopefully, everything
will make sense when I'm feeling better and I may end up loving the program.
Margaret
"Chris Hallsworth" wrote:
Hi, as I say by default Avast alerts you to what threats has been found.
This does not mean that it should be that way, however the only place as far
as I know to turn those alerts off is in the dialogue itself, where you
check a check box to not show you alerts again. I'm not sure what the
default action for malware removal is once that check box is unchecked since
I personally liked being warned when a threat has been found as at least I
get an opportunity to see what Avast has picked up. But to each his own I
guess. Second, you don't have to delete the archived files that couldn't be
accessed. If you click the action button, you'll see things like
rename/move, move to chest, etc. Personally I've had little to no false
positives with Avast compared to AVG, which picked up trojans that even
Google's never heard of. Hope that helps.
--
Chris Hallsworth
----- Original Message -----
From: "Margaret Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Scanning with Avast?
> 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,
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