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In boot time test, without the any anti-virus it took 28 seconds to boot. Avira showed no impact on system start up time while with Avast it took 30 seconds, which translates to a 2 second delay. Therefore Avast will delay your boot time slightly. Avast Pro Antivirus 18.4.3 + license key Latest Version November 9, 2018 Anti-Virus, Full pc software, free download, Windows 0 77 avast pro antivirus license key is a very powerfull software for windows operating systems likes Android, Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Avast Boot time Scan is a scan that runs prior to the Operating System fully loading drivers, start-up programs, or other places where viruses or Trojans can hide from scanners.



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Start the Avast user interface from the Start Menu, by double clicking the orange Avast icon in the System Tray, or double clicking the desktop shortcut.
Steps:
1) In the left column, click the Scan Computer link.


3) If you are going to do this, do it right and select to scan all harddisks.
4) Since viruses do hide in .ZIP or other types of compressed/archived types of files, so be sure to also check the second box to scan inside of them.
5) Once clicking on the Schedule Now all you need to do is a system restart. If anything is found during the boot scan the prompts are self explanatory, read them and follow their advice.

Note: The boot-time scan is not available to 64-bit versions of Windows.
You can't select default actions for the infected items found by boot-time scan. This means that you will have to stand by in case something is detected and the scanner stops until you select an action.

You can't select default actions for the infected items found by boot-time scan. This means that you will have to stand by in case something is detected and the scanner stops until you select an action.
First of all, you can stop the boot-time scan at any time by pressing ESC key on your keyboard. Windows will start up as usual after this. But I do not recommend doing this unless you really need to - your computer might still be infected and you must reschedule the scan.
Check the status of the scan around every 15 minutes. If boot-time scan finds no infected items, Windows starts normally.
If a detection occurs, Avast! Free Antivirus will ask for action. Always press 4 key on your keyboard to move this item and all other detected items to Virus Chest.
But some types of archives are not well-supported by avast! Antivirus. In such case, moving the infected file from archive to Virus Chest fails and brings up an error 42111 - the operation is not supported for this type of archive.
As a packed file cannot run by itself and infect your system, you should press 7 key on your keyboard to ignore this one file (all other actions except 'Ignore' would fail, too). Do not select any other action, especially 'Ignore all' - this would apply the ignore action to all other upcoming detections and leave your computer infected!
Again, press 7 key on your keyboard to ignore the packed file.
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You might have to repeat the Ignore action for several files in archives

Every Avast antivirus (Free Antivirus, Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier), even the free version, offers a great feature which can search for any viruses and malware on your computer before it even starts. It’s called a Boot-Time Scan and below are the steps how to perform it in the latest 2018 version. It works great even with the latest Windows 10 release.

Technically boot-time scan runs before the Windows are loaded, so it doesn’t give malware any chance to hide. From our experience we recommend running a full boot-time scan at least once a month, to make sure your computer is clean.

Quick Summary

  1. Open Avast interface and go to ‘Protection‘ » ‘Scans‘
  2. Select ‘Boot-Time Scan’ and click on ‘Run on next PC reboot’
  3. Restart your Windows and the boot-time scan will take place

Read more detailed steps and other options including screenshots below.

1. Schedule a Boot-Time Scan

Open interface of your program and navigate to tab ‘Protection‘ » ‘Scans‘ in the left menu. Once the scan overview shows click on ‘Boot-Time Scan‘ option.

Running a Boot-time Scan in Avast 2018 – Scan Overview

On the Boot-time Scan window click on ‘Install specialized definitions‘ to add special virus definitions which detects malware on inaccessible places for Windows. Once done click on the green button ‘RUN ON NEXT PC REBOOT‘ and you are set.

Running a Boot-time Scan in Avast 2018 – Boot-time Scan

Also, the message will change to ‘Scan will run on next boot‘. To cancel boot-time scan simply click on the ‘Cancel scheduled scan‘ link.

2. Advanced Settings of the Boot-Time Scan

For more advanced options click on the cog-wheel icon in the Boot-time Scan tile on the Other Scans overview (second screenshot in this article). In the boot-time scan settings you can select following options:

  • Areas to scan – All hard disks, only system drive, or auto-start programs
  • Heuristics sensitivity (analysis which detects not yet known viruses) – Off, low, normal, high (recommended though it may increase amount of false-positives found)
  • What do to do if a threat is found – Ask, move to chest, repair, delete, no action, or fix automatically
  • Others – Scan for potentially unwanted programs (PUPs), unpack archive files

Changing any of the settings or just confirming doesn’t make the boot-time scan scheduled. You still need to perform the steps above.

Running a Boot-time Scan in Avast 2018 – Boot-time Scan Settings

Please note the boot-time scan isn’t happening in Windows but before Windows are loaded. Below you can see the example of how the boot-time scan looks in the Avast antivirus 2016.

Running a Boot-time Scan in Avast 2018 – Boot-time Scan In Progress

Your Windows will boot automatically if there is no virus found. If Avast founds a virus, you can perform one of the actions below by pressing a relevant number on your keyboard

  • 1 – Fix automatically
  • 2 – Fix all automatically
  • 3 – Move to Chest
  • 4 – Move all to Chest
  • 5 – Delete
  • 6 – Delete all
  • 7 – Repair
  • 8 – Repair all
  • 9 – Ignore
  • 0 – Ignore all

If the infected file is in the folder you also need to confirm the action by pressing

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  • 1 – Yes
  • 2 – Yes all
  • 3 – No

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You can always press ‘Esc‘ key to cancel the scan and continue with the boot. After the boot-time scan is complete, you can find its report in ‘Scan‘ » ‘Scan for viruses‘ » ‘Scan history‘. Alternatively, you can navigate to report by going to ‘C:ProgramDataAVAST SoftwareAvastreportaswBoot.txt‘.

Additional Notes

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Although we have used Avast Free Antivirus 2019 screenshots in this article, these steps are also applicable for all Avast Antivirus solutions (i.e. also for Avast Pro Antivirus, Avast Internet Security, or Avast Premier) running the latest version available.

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Steps are relevant for all Windows versions – Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 (including Anniversary Update).