Ops, forgot to reply. :)

Well, there are some purely online scanners. They are mostly done in ActiveX and suck. So I am glad this one is simply portable, still confused by choice of name.

Yeah, by default SAS skips archives, as well as large files and non-executables. I think this is acceptable policy, modern hard drives became to large for quick full scans. :)

Most of my anti-malware usage is cleaning up mess already created so I am not too good with covering pre-emptive practices, thanks for chiming in.

PS it is perfectly fine to use regular email ;) will make live easier for both of us, because comments from known commenters are auto-approved.

I have SAS to scan any file I’ve downloaded,
but only as a complement to AVAST
& MalwareBytes Antimalware (what a name…).

All, be aware that if you use SAS to scan a ZIP file
you’ve just downloaded,
SAS does NOT expand the ZIP and virus-scan
each individual ZIP file…

That’s why I always FIRST scan a d/l ZIP file
with AVAST & MalwareBytes Antimalware.
The latter 2 WILL temp UNzip the file,
and scan all files in the ZIP.

Just my contribution.
SFdude

Thank you for your “good” insight and instinct on this… I should have picked up on it myself (not really being an online/cloud app, as such).

This is what makes blogging great…

Rick