Permanent boot-time scan with Vista

[Jungleseven]

Hi all,
today I scheduled a boot-time scan on my system (Win Vista and Avast 4.7 Pro), but during this the PC is shutdown (I don't know why) and now at each boot start a boot-scan.

I tried to schedule a new one, but in this way start two scan; so I think that after the "little incident" Avast has not remove the entry in the boot file.
Could you help me to find and modify this file?

Thanks Guys.

[Lisandro]

Try to schedule it twice (without booting in between). The first could schedule and the second un-schedule.
Maybe even at the first tentative, avast ask if you want to un-schedule, then accept and stop, don't make the second.
Can you try?

[igor]

Do you mean that the boot-time scanner started, finished, and then started immediatelly again??

If that's really the case, please start regedit, navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager
and export this key to a file. I'd love to see the content of the BootExecute value.

[Jungleseven]

Thanks guys,
I've already tried to schedule and un-schedule, but unfortunately doesn't work (after that, a boot-scan starts again).

Yes Igor, I mean that starts the first scan - I press "esc" - then starts the second scan.....and I press "esc" again :-)
Maybe you've find the right key, indeed there is a strange value; where I can send you the .reg file?

Thanks a lot for the help.

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this is the "strange" value

Value 10
  Name:            BootExecute
  Type:            REG_MULTI_SZ
  Data:            autocheck autochk * autocheck aswBoot.exe /A:"*" /L:"English" /archives
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[Lisandro]

aswBoot.exe /A:"*" /L:"English" /archives

This part of the reg file should be removed...
Better if you export the key to your computer for backup purposes and make the changes.

[igor]

Strange... I understand why it can't be removed, but I must say I have no idea how the item got there.
Please remove the line
autocheck aswBoot.exe /A:"*" /L:"English" /archives
in regedit and the scheduling should be canceled.
(Normally, the first "word" - autocheck - shouldn't be there; that's why avast! can't unschedule the record correctly, it doesn't recognize the additional word in the beginning).

How did you schedule the first boot-time scan that wasn't removed correctly?

[Jungleseven]

OK, I've removed the entire record:
autocheck aswBoot.exe /A:"*" /L:"English" /archives
and now it's ok, no more Boot-Time Scan.
THANKS!!

The first BTS has been scheduled by the pop-up message appeared at the end of installation.
This asked if I want schedule a BTS at the next boot, and I've pressed "Yes".
But during the BTS my pc was shutdown, and at the next boot the issue is started.

Just, my computer is a notebook and it was power plugged;
maybe the BTS is not recognized as an activity, so it was started an Hibernation procedure.....but....it's strange.

I tried to schedule a BTS - check the registry key - unschedule the BTS, and works properly: only aswBoot.exe /A:"*" /L:"English" /archives was added and removed.

I don't know, I've got another pc with Avast 4.7 Pro and WinXP and I've never experienced this kind of problem; it's true, I've never seen a computer hibernating, during a disk scan; maybe Vista added the "autocheck" during the system check at reboot.

Thanks again for the help.

[Lisandro]

Maybe Vista added the "autocheck" during the system check at reboot.

The 'autocheck' seems something related to power failure and scandisk (chkdsk) operation...