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<blockquote data-quote="Trident" data-source="post: 1036753" data-attributes="member: 99014">Because the installer (guessing cracked) is a self-extracting archive (compound file) scanning of archives will have to be enabled for real time protection to extract the file and scan it.That goes for all antiviruses. I personally always enable archive scanning, but it creates a higher performance overhead. Threats in archives and installers are considered latent with the assumption that you or the archive will extract files and they will be scanned one by one. But frequently, additional threats can be embedded, such as injectors. The default setup where archives are not scanned is not great.About Avast Free, many people are surprised, as they are not aware of the technology behind Avast. Avast is frequently the first and only one to somehow (be it with web shield, antivirus or something else) block a threat. The assumption that Avast is ineffective is wrong and is bias spread on various forums, including this one, by people who have 0 knowledge of threats, the antivirus industry and Avast as a company.Today I tested few threats which were only picked up by Avast and the CheckPoint emulation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Trident, post: 1036753, member: 99014"] Because the installer (guessing cracked) is a self-extracting archive (compound file) scanning of archives will have to be enabled for real time protection to extract the file and scan it. That goes for all antiviruses. I personally always enable archive scanning, but it creates a higher performance overhead. Threats in archives and installers are considered latent with the assumption that you or the archive will extract files and they will be scanned one by one. But frequently, additional threats can be embedded, such as injectors. The default setup where archives are not scanned is not great. About Avast Free, many people are surprised, as they are not aware of the technology behind Avast. Avast is frequently the first and only one to somehow (be it with web shield, antivirus or something else) block a threat. The assumption that Avast is ineffective is wrong and is bias spread on various forums, including this one, by people who have 0 knowledge of threats, the antivirus industry and Avast as a company. Today I tested few threats which were only picked up by Avast and the CheckPoint emulation. [/QUOTE]

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