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Like AVG, Avast offers a boot time scan, designed to eliminate pernicious and persistent malware that resists normal cleanup. Running a Boot-time Scan in Avast Antivirus from Windows in Safe Mode If malware prevents Avast Antivirus from running a Boot-time Scan, you can run Windows in Safe Mode and use the Boot-time scan scheduler.
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.
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Quick Summary
- Open Avast interface and go to ‘Protection‘ » ‘Scans‘
- Select ‘Boot-Time Scan’ and click on ‘Run on next PC reboot’
- 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.
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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
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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 Avast for mac 10.8.5.
- 1 – Yes
- 2 – Yes all
- 3 – No
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.
Steps are relevant for all Windows versions – Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 (including Anniversary Update).
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Jerald A. GrossI am wondering if AVG has a scanner that scans the Boot Process for infection like the one that Avast has? The reason I ask is because it is useful in finding unwanted processes in the Boot Time Process allowing youi to see PUPs and other things in your boot process that may either be slowing down the boot process or preping the computer to accept or not reconize unwanted infection in the programming itself. Does AVG have a Boot Time Scanner like this? If so how do I access it? If not, are they developing one and when do they expect to release it?
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Jerald, Please refrain from carrying out multiple postings on the same subject! You won't obtain an answer to your query any faster! Other posting (https://support.avg.com/answers?id=906b0000000D5eXAAS).
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- June 18, 2015
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Hello Jerald. I would like to let you know that you can perform boot time scan using AVG Rescue Cd which checks for infections before the operating system boots. Please click this link http://bit.ly/1d3yb3Y to have a clear idea about the AVG Rescue cd. However, there is no inbuilt feature within the software to perform boot time scan as of now. Since, it is an advanced feature, it might be hard for some of the users to understand what the boot time scan actually does and so AVG has enabled the feature in a separate AVG Rescue cd. Please feel free to reach us back for any further issues. Thank you. Kishore, AVG Customer Care.
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