AVG, as I recall, only scans the files about to be booted during its bootup scan.

Boot-Time scan, however, is like running your OnDemmand scanner, but quicker, and with more resources available, and no files in use. By the way -

A sometimes handy little tool to have:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eicar_test_file


I can't seem to FIND it/download it at  http://www.eicar.org/    ,   but it is easy to make it with the info found on that wiki page.


Besides using it to test your own system,  it can provide a bit of fun if you can get a copy of it onto a friends system.      Quote from: Zylstra on May 06, 2007, 04:15:38 PM

AVG, as I recall, only scans the files about to be booted during its bootup scan.

Boot-Time scan, however, is like running your OnDemmand scanner, but quicker, and with more resources available, and no files in use.

Quote from: Zylstra on May 06, 2007, 04:15:38 PM

AVG, as I recall, only scans the files about to be booted during its bootup scan.

Boot-Time scan, however, is like running your OnDemmand scanner, but quicker, and with more resources available, and no files in use.

Ah.
Ok.

Thanks

Quote from: WillyW on May 06, 2007, 04:19:18 PM

Quote from: Zylstra on May 06, 2007, 04:15:38 PM

AVG, as I recall, only scans the files about to be booted during its bootup scan.

Boot-Time scan, however, is like running your OnDemmand scanner, but quicker, and with more resources available, and no files in use.

Ah.
Ok.

Thanks

This is inaccurate...

p.s. Zylstra do me a favor...make a folder and nest it 5 levels deep and place eicar in there and see if Avast finds it even on it's thourough scan....a root beer says it won't.

Quote from: WillyW on May 06, 2007, 04:19:18 PM

Quote from: Zylstra on May 06, 2007, 04:15:38 PM

AVG, as I recall, only scans the files about to be booted during its bootup scan.

Boot-Time scan, however, is like running your OnDemmand scanner, but quicker, and with more resources available, and no files in use.

Ah.
Ok.

Thanks

This is inaccurate...

p.s. Zylstra do me a favor...make a folder and nest it 5 levels deep and place eicar in there and see if Avast finds it even on it's thourough scan....a root beer says it won't.

Quote from: patio on May 06, 2007, 09:49:25 PM

Quote from: WillyW on May 06, 2007, 04:19:18 PM

Quote from: Zylstra on May 06, 2007, 04:15:38 PM

AVG, as I recall, only scans the files about to be booted during its bootup scan.

Boot-Time scan, however, is like running your OnDemmand scanner, but quicker, and with more resources available, and no files in use.

Ah.
Ok.

Thanks

This is inaccurate...

p.s. Zylstra do me a favor...make a folder and nest it 5 levels deep and place eicar in there and see if Avast finds it even on it's thourough scan....a root beer says it won't.

I'd like to know why that would make a difference.  Any scanner that can't do this would have to be very poorly designed.  I wouldn't say that Avast! is the greatest, but it's certainly not that bad.

One thing I would like to point out, though, is that AVG detects Eicar the very second it's created.  As soon as I save the file, AVG notifies me.

Try packing it 5 levels deep in an archive then, rather than folders.

As soon as I click on the link to download it Avast warns me.

Quote from: Calum on May 07, 2007, 02:20:13 AM

Try packing it 5 levels deep in an archive then, rather than folders.

No matter what I try to archive it with, access is denied.

Try packing it 5 levels deep in an archive then, rather than folders.

...

It also depends on the scan type.
(A lot of virus scanners allow a user to not scan .zip and other packers, since it takes longer)

I cant even start downloading the virus file, since Avast stops it before I even click "Save As"