http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/538 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: AVG scanning? en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:59:15 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/538#post-2599 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:33:53 +0000 BuBBy 2599@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>If you are running AVG and you have "Resident Shield is loaded and fully functional." (eg Green Tick) on the "AVG Control Center/Security Status" screen -- then you don't need to even do a manual scan.</p> <p>The Resident Shield automatically scans all executable files and documents - so as soon as you have downloaded or try to open an executable it is scanned automatically and if there is a problem AVG will jump in and stop it from running - and ask you what you want to do. You can try to clean it - or delete it at that point - depending on your level of paranoia.</p> <p>Often even if you access a file in a folder, and a different file in that same folder is infected - AVG will pick that up too.</p> <p>So, with the Resident Shield turned on - you cannot actually open or run an infected file without AVG halting it, and asking for direction. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/538#post-2590 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 08:27:55 +0000 inneedof1 2590@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thank you FABScott :) I will try! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/538#post-2575 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:44:48 +0000 FABScott 2575@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Download them first and scan before you install them if you are concerned; but I would imagine the admins here have already scanned them anyway.</p> <p>Right-click on the tray icon for AVG - select the option 'Launch AVG Test Center' and then on the 'Scan Selected Areas'. Navigate to wherever you want to scan. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/538#post-2570 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:16:06 +0000 inneedof1 2570@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>HOWDY! I have a silly question: how do i scan the GGOTD, before i actually download them. I used to know how but forgot? I am using AVG to scan? </p>