Avast (OT)

[lisztfr]

Hello,

Can anyone tell me the name of that file containing the VRDB ?

Thx,

laurent

 

[John Jay Smith]

The first thing I do when I install avast is that I turn off VRDB

 

[lisztfr]

John Jay Smith a écrit :

The first thing I do when I install avast is that I turn off VRDB

Yes, but the 2nd thing should be to turn it on again because my
experience show that infected files are not ever correctly restored by
Avast (i guess it's a CRC pb, programs which make a CRC check
fails, but other too)

Anyway, i was searching the database because i wanted to know
it's size it' seems not big...


laurent

 

[John Jay Smith]

perhaps its a mistake of mine.. I was just thinking that this would
require extra cpu power... and avast needs too much without it ...

what is your experience?



John Jay Smith a écrit :

The first thing I do when I install avast is that I turn off VRDB

Yes, but the 2nd thing should be to turn it on again because my
experience show that infected files are not ever correctly restored by
Avast (i guess it's a CRC pb, programs which make a CRC check
fails, but other too)

Anyway, i was searching the database because i wanted to know
it's size it' seems not big...


laurent

 

[Goeroeboeroe]

Hello,

Can anyone tell me the name of that file containing the VRDB ?

Thx,

laurent

Hi Laurent,
In my machine it's:
C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\DATA\integ\avast.int

Maybe your path will be a little different.

Peter

 

[dadiOH]

perhaps its a mistake of mine.. I was just thinking that this would
require extra cpu power... and avast needs too much without it ...

what is your experience?

Avast uses less than 1/10 of 1% of the CPU. Doesn't seem like much to me.


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[John Jay Smith]

And tell me how do you know this?

Whenever you access move or copy a file it has to scan it.

are you counting when its idle or when its scanning?

I am talking about the time its scanning not sitting around wait

to actually see how bad (or good) this is, you could enable the setting
as in this following screenshot

http://www.computerboom.com/support/avast-files.jpg

then you will see that avast is working like crazy AND on a high priority

 

[dadiOH]

And tell me how do you know this?

I looked with TaskInfo
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Whenever you access move or copy a file it has to scan it.

are you counting when its idle or when its scanning?

That was just sitting. When scanning as a program opens its CPU usage jumps
way up to around 3/10 of 1 per cent.

If you set it to scanning the whole drive it's going to use more....around
75-85%. You do that often?


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____________________________

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....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico

 

[John Jay Smith]

All that depends on what CPU you are talking about.

On older system people avoid installing avast and stick with AVG,
because it uses less cpu and ram.

 

[dadiOH]

All that depends on what CPU you are talking about.

On older system people avoid installing avast and stick with AVG,
because it uses less cpu and ram.

An older CPU will do things slower but avast won't use anymore of it. If
you like AVG, use it - no skin off my nose - but I kinda doubt it uses less
CPU.

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dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.06...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico

 

[Franklin]

I looked with TaskInfo
__________________


That was just sitting. When scanning as a program opens its CPU
usage jumps way up to around 3/10 of 1 per cent.

If you set it to scanning the whole drive it's going to use
more....around 75-85%. You do that often?

Could this be influenced by the sampling rate of Taskinfo for its cpu
utilization figures?

 

[lisztfr]

John Jay Smith a écrit :

perhaps its a mistake of mine.. I was just thinking that this would
require extra cpu power... and avast needs too much without it ...

what is your experience?

It is that after an infection with tenga, following files at least are
definitively damaged :

regenv32, closeall, noise, regprot, total commander. Other files are
bad renamed (so it's not a real prob) : autohotkey, proxomitron...
renamed in DOS 8+3.
The most annoying was the total commander corruption.But I hope i
will not discover other damages in the future !
The database is only 2,1 MB for my small system, and updated all
3 weeks, so it is not a great resource hog, -and maybe useful.


Thx to Goeroeboeroe for the hint

The database is not Human readable btw

Lh

 

[lisztfr]

John Jay Smith a écrit :


It is that after an infection with tenga, following files at least are
definitively damaged :

regenv32, closeall, noise, regprot, total commander. Other files are
bad renamed (so it's not a real prob) : autohotkey, proxomitron...
renamed in DOS 8+3.
The most annoying was the total commander corruption.But I hope i
will not discover other damages in the future !
The database is only 2,1 MB for my small system, and updated all
3 weeks, so it is not a great resource hog, -and maybe useful.


Thx to Goeroeboeroe for the hint

The database is not Human readable btw

Lh

....All my installer and (uninstaller) arer destroyed

Lh