Avast 4.8 Setup and Manual Scanning

This post was written by admin on July 15, 2008
Posted Under: Antivirus, Avast Setup

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Avast Anti-Virus is gaining popularity as it is free, powerful and will automatically update itself for both the definition files and the program. Once the program is set up it will run itself, monitoring in realtime and will warn you of any known incoming threats that may compromise your system.

These videos will show you how to configure Avast and then how to complete a manual scan, although for most of the time the Resident Shield offers superb protection. With the updates for the virus database and the program set to Automatic it will update both every 4 hours so it is always up-to-date with the latest definition files.

You can of course change this if you so wish by right clicking the Avast icon in your system tray and selecting Program Settings, then click on Update (Basic) then click the Details button and enter a new time value in minutes for updates then click OK twice to exit the Program Settings.

Avast Configuration: