[tomdkat]

The only manual scan I ran was the "optimized" scan after the initial install. After that, I let the schedule scan run on its own.

Speaking of firewalls, I did change firewalls on the machine so I'll take a look into that if the scheduled scan doesn't run tonight.

Thanks for mentioning that.

Peace...

[flavallee]

I ran a scan with AVG 9 on both my Vista and XP desktops today.

The scan took 32 minutes on the Vista desktop and took 45 minutes on the XP desktop.

One interesting thing that it did on the Vista desktop that it didn't do on the XP desktop was to flag these 2 saved files:

BurnAware Free 2.4.1

K-Lite Codec Pack 5.2.2 Full

as Trojan horse PSW.Bankers5.ZPY.

Figure that one out.

(When I download and install updates to currently-installed programs, I always save the updated versions and burn them off to CD-R's for future install if needed.)

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[tomdkat]

I had a similar experience on another machine where the Malwarebytes installer was flagged as being infected with PSW.Bankers5.ZOY.

I'm thinking that's a false positive but I don't get the inconsistency in your detection.

Strange...

Peace...

[flavallee]

It's a quirk that's appeared in 9.0 that I didn't have in 8.5 or earlier versions.

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[tomdkat]

Originally Posted by hewee

Maybe a firewall or something has to have rights for it to start.

Good call on the firewall. Last night's scheduled scan didn't run either but when I tried to run a manual scan, Comodo popups appeared asking if I wanted to permit the actions.

So, I'm thinking Comodo might be "getting in the way". I'll look into configuring Comodo accordingly.

Peace...

[Blackmirror]

Originally Posted by tomdkat

I just noticed something about AVG 9 on my mom's system. I've got AVG configured to scan her system nightly and it did the first night after I installed it. Last night, however, the scheduled scan didn't run. I'm not sure if this is due to the optimized scan causing AVG to determine a scan wasn't needed or if something else happened.

Peace...

once a week is enough

[hewee]

Originally Posted by tomdkat

Good call on the firewall. Last night's scheduled scan didn't run either but when I tried to run a manual scan, Comodo popups appeared asking if I wanted to permit the actions.

So, I'm thinking Comodo might be "getting in the way". I'll look into configuring Comodo accordingly.

Peace...

Hey good to hear that.
I keep the firewall setting on high and looking at program list that I had for years with Zone Alarm Pro 4.x version and now Online Armor up to date version when you update program version most times the file name they point to never changes but the components version number also change and that is the harder one to know what component goes to what and it is a very big list also.
So if it is something that you know should work but does not and you made a version change and you know your computer is clean so it had to be the install of the newer version then lower your setting to a learning mode and it will fix then by knowing what setting should be what. Then move your setting back.
Zone Alarm I had to do this after every firefox, thunderbird, A2 and a couple other programs version that changed.
Now with Online Armor that I really like and have it on the higher setting after they changed some things on the 3.x version and each 3.x version your go and do something and get asked all over again. That I think is OA fault because I bet there upgrade version is really an install that deleted the older and installs the newer version but not every setting is stays so you open a program and then click part of that program and up pops a box from OA that you got to give the rights to or block.

[tomdkat]

It turned out Comodo's Defense+ feature was preventing the AVG scheduler from creating the process to do the scheduled scan. Once I got that configured appropriately, the scheduled scans have been running as expected.

On my mom's computer, scan times are about 1hr 44 mins for just over 542k objects.

Peace...

[hewee]

Yep the firewall was what I was thinking.
Glad you got it fix and your mom loves you for fixing it too.