Should my scheduled virus scan run on the partition of my hard drive with recovery files?
March 29th, 2010 | 
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I just switched from Norton AV to Avast!.
Avast! requires that I set what areas to scan. This laptop is running on Vista Home Premium, and has a ‘D:’ drive for recovery files. Should I make the scan run on this hard disk partition?
yes for your answer.
Avast should scan the entire comp.
m
Posted in hard drive recovery
Yes. If the machine becomes infected, it can place files all over the system. I have even seen a virus infect every shared folder on a server from one machine.
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Yes!! If you have a virus there you want to know it now. The chances up to date Norton has missed a virus is slim but I have seen it happen with all the virus scanners. Be sure you have a bot searcher such as "Spybot Search and Destroy".
I would always scan backup files before they are backed up. But, you can’t be to thorough.
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yes for your answer.
Avast should scan the entire comp.
m
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