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gal1998 · Jul 15, 2004

I am on my way to work, but before I leave have a quick question.

Tried running Avast full scan this morning. When it showed it was done, said had over 1000 files it could not scan. What am I doing wrong? Settings?
Running XPHome.
Thanks
Gal

DavidGP · Jul 15, 2004

Gal ... this is from Avast's FAQ

When the file scanning is finished, avast comes up with a number of files listed as "unable to scan", even though I have used a thorough scan. Should I be concerned?

A: Some files are permanently locked by the system or they are in password-protected archives. These files cannot be scanned. It is normal and you don´t have to be worried about that.
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http://www.avast.com/eng/support/faq/avast_4_home_profe/other_problems/index.html#idt_1543

its quite normal for this to happen AFAIK.. AVG does the same, some of the othes like McAfee auto skip those files.

pegg · Jul 15, 2004

Yep - I've never had 1000 but I always have a bunch. -- sometimes before a scan I'll go down the right hand side of the scan box to the bottom icon -- looks like a folder.(it will say, folder selection, and then you can tell it to scan certain folders by checking the boxes -- and leave off ones like, spybot, drivers, etc. that I know it won't scan anyway...just to save time)

gal1998 · Jul 15, 2004

Thanks for the answers. I appreciate them. Now I won't worry

Gal

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