AVAST VS AVG

[Shane]

How do I set AVG to stop healing my virus collection? I would
prefer just a report. I have to sneak new virus' onto a floppy
and write protect it before allowing AVG to scan.

Generally I rename all viruses to a .txt extension, then zip them and rename
the zip extension (this last more because some AV progs will continue to
alert on viruses with a .txt extension. Few if any will alert on a
virus.eml.txt within virus.zop).

So far this works fine from Windows. AVG will alert on
the initial r-click, saying to run AVG to remove. If you click OK you can
continue renaming. While AVG Free can be set to scan all extensions during
the complete test, Resident Shield doesn't and stops alerting once the virus
has a .txt extension. Alternatively - if using FAT32 - you can boot to DOS
and rename from there.


Shane

 

[BoB]

The voice of "BoB" drifted in on the cyber-winds,
from the sea of virtual chaos...



Place them on a partition you don't care to scan, then open AVG and go
to Service/Complete Test Settings and remove that partition's drive
letter from the list... As simple as that...

I'm not sure how you'd silence system scan, but it does work for the
manual "full system" scanner.

I 'do' want to scan the collection to determine what AVG does or does
not detect, but I only want to get a 'report' of AVG's findings. AVG
apparently only heals, take it or leave it. My other AV's can be set
to report identification of infected files but will leave them as is.

BoB

 

[Shane]

I 'do' want to scan the collection to determine what AVG does or does
not detect, but I only want to get a 'report' of AVG's findings. AVG
apparently only heals, take it or leave it. My other AV's can be set
to report identification of infected files but will leave them as is.

Run from a command prompt or make a batch file, eg:

@echo off
cls
cd c:\progra~1\grisoft\avg6
AVGSCAN C:\*.* /HEUR /COMP /EXT=*/ /ARCW /RTW /MACROW /REPORT =AVGSCN.TXT

To get the parameters run:
c:\progra~1\grisoft\avg6\avgscan /? >avgprams.txt


Shane

 

[Trog Dog]

The voice of "BoB" drifted in on the cyber-winds,
from the sea of virtual chaos...

Archive them in zip files. AVG will unpack and scan the zips, report
infections, but won't heal them.

 

[BoB]

Run from a command prompt or make a batch file, eg:

@echo off
cls
cd c:\progra~1\grisoft\avg6
AVGSCAN C:\*.* /HEUR /COMP /EXT=*/ /ARCW /RTW /MACROW /REPORT =AVGSCN.TXT

To get the parameters run:
c:\progra~1\grisoft\avg6\avgscan /? >avgprams.txt

Shane

Almost perfect on the first pass, Shane.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Test start 4/2/04 8:08:56
Elapsed time: 49 sec.
----------------------------------
Scanned files : 14
Scanned sectors : 3
Infected files : 12
Infected sectors : 0
----------------------------------
~~~~~~~~~~

I made a bat file and changed the drive designator to A:.
I had two zip files of additional virus' on that very full
disk which it did not scan, hence the 14/12 difference, so
I unzipped them to another floppy to check them.

AVG detected and identified all 28 worms/virus'.
Thanks for the specific answer I was looking for.

BoB

 

[Shane]

Almost perfect on the first pass, Shane.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Test start 4/2/04 8:08:56
Elapsed time: 49 sec.
----------------------------------
Scanned files : 14
Scanned sectors : 3
Infected files : 12
Infected sectors : 0
----------------------------------
~~~~~~~~~~

I made a bat file and changed the drive designator to A:.
I had two zip files of additional virus' on that very full
disk which it did not scan, hence the 14/12 difference, so
I unzipped them to another floppy to check them.

AVG detected and identified all 28 worms/virus'.
Thanks for the specific answer I was looking for.

No problem. btw I misread you first time.

Shane