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Anyone know that can answer that? ^ (do Avast scans always take longer when they detect a virus, even if it's a false positive) Want to make sure it's not just me and not unusual. Sorry, don't want to spam open another topic.

Ok that's good to know, thanks hedwar. Yeah I only use my one HDD exclusively for steam because I want to have enough space on it. Another question I thought of if anyone knows is does Avast / any antivirus always take way longer to scan every single time it detects a virus? I assume this is...

Hello. I use the free version of Avast antivirus and it has given me multiple false positives, mostly from random game exe files in my steam common folder. So I decided I think I am going to try keeping an exclusion for this folder and it won't be regularly scanned in my full system scans. Is...

I just want to confirm if someone can answer, is it okay to have an exclusion for your Steam common folder which holds the game files and exes? edit: A mod can close this thread if they want, I figured out the original problem I had and want to ask another question now, ty!

Sorry I poked around some after I googled some more things and read some more and someone said to add exclusions in multiple places and realized that the Active Protection isn't part of scanning, it's... active protection. So under the tab for scanning on full scan I simply clicked...

Over the past few months I've gotten multiple (what I assume are) false positives from full system virus scans from Avast. Two were from random steam exe files from steam games I downloaded through steam. One today was from a core temp installer.exe I had sitting in my downloads folder for the...