re-avast5

joe134

closed wrote: »

why are you going back to avg, that didn't find anything either, neither did spybot/rapport which are churning away slowing things down without any benefit. avast has the best detection rates and lightest footprint of any free ones, as already explained, no antivirus finds everything, it may even be a false positive, or undetected due to out of date signatures.

Hi closed, I,m not going back to AVG, I just said if I moved again, it would be back to avg.I can only presume, if Avast is ok, then it,s got through the back door, probably when I took avg off, and installed Avast.It only takes a second of defences down to get in,it just seemed strange that Avast didn,t pick up on it when I used it to scan, twice.Malwarebytes picked it up.AVG couldn,t because it wasn,t on then::Either Avast missed it, or, it got in back door, but it still missed it.Rapport not A/v, and spybot teatime I,m not too sure about how good it is .I can only claim, avg has been good to me for years, no trojans at all.Time will tell if Avast compares as well.I find it heavier when using pc while scanning,than avg, so I shall use boot scan.

aliEnRIK

Its a false positive

joe134

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Its a false positive

Hi EnRIK, Much appreciated, stick with it ,see how it goes.Boot scan goes on for ever.did full scan 0600, 45mins.ok then set boot scan schedule, rebooted, stopped it myself 2 hours later, must go on for ever, thought it would scan, then boot automatically when finished. set scheduled scan now. boot scan reccommended. any hints?:beer:

closed

it's a resident scanner, manual scans aren't needed unless you suspect a problem

fiddiwebb

joe134 wrote: »

Hi EnRIK, Much appreciated, stick with it ,see how it goes.Boot scan goes on for ever.did full scan 0600, 45mins.ok then set boot scan schedule, rebooted, stopped it myself 2 hours later, must go on for ever, thought it would scan, then boot automatically when finished. set scheduled scan now. boot scan reccommended. any hints?:beer:

Can anyone decipher?

Is it a telegram STOP

dogmaryxx

Please remember that boot-time scan takes quite a long time - up to several hours. As you can't define default actions for the boot-time scan in Avast free antivirus, you should check the status of the scan from time to time - the scan stops after finding a virus or a malware item and asks for the type of action to perform.

joe134

dogmaryxx wrote: »

Please remember that boot-time scan takes quite a long time - up to several hours. As you can't define default actions for the boot-time scan in Avast free antivirus, you should check the status of the scan from time to time - the scan stops after finding a virus or a malware item and asks for the type of action to perform.

Thanks dogmaryxx, much appreciated.that explains time, I thought it was just going round and round.

joe134

fiddiwebb wrote: »

Can anyone decipher?

Is it a telegram STOP

Sorry fiddiwebb, sometimes I keep thinking I,m texting.I shall try and be a bit more explanative. or is it explanatory.? in future.:beer: STOP

joe134

closed wrote: »

it's a resident scanner, manual scans aren't needed unless you suspect a problem

You were right closed, my most humble regards.:beer: