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Title: Full Scan Will not Scan Removable Drives
Post by: REDACTED on December 14, 2017, 11:24:53 PM
I have a Toshiba Satellite L755 running Windows 7 Home Premium (currently) Avast Free Antivirus 17.8.2318.
Yesterday I my laptop ran its scheduled full computer scan, which I ave set to scan "all removable media". This normally takes between nine and ten and a half hours, most of which is spent scanning my 500GB Toshiba Canvio USB hard drive. I also connect my 16GB flash drive during the scan.
However, when I checked on its progress about four hours and twenty minutes in, my external drive showed no sign of activity, and Avast showed zero percent progress. As I have previously gotten inaccurate progress indications corrected by going to the Antivirus screen and clicking on "Full Virus Scan" again, I did so, and still saw "0%" displayed. I canceled the scan, and clicked"SCAN HISTORY", where the scan was listed as having been completed in "1:20:44", testing 115.6GB,instead of the usual 1.1TB. Normally, my laptop would go to sleep when the scan is completed, as I leave my laptop alone aside from occasional progress checks.
Therefore, I checked my inbox, then restarted my laptop; after, when I was unable to open the Avast UI. As I have been unable to open it before, I restarted again, and was able to open the UI.
However, when I started a full computer scan, the problem recurred (supposed run time: 1:16:14, 116.0GB tested), so I tried using the "Repair" function from Programs and Features.
After restarting again, I ran the same scan, which supposedly lasted 1:25:43 and scanned 117.7GB. The scan still showed zero progress when it came time for Backup and Restore to make a backup, over fifteen minutes after the supposed completion. I tried to open Backup and Restore to stop the backup, which I expected to fail, but everything except Avast and the cursor froze, including the Start Menu. After waiting in hopes of anything changing, I forced a shutdown, then started my laptop again.
My final scan attempt supposedly lasted 1:13:02, scanning 116.0GB.
These results my be caused by scanning until getting to my external drives, hitting a problem, and getting stuck there, but I don't know what that problem is.
Can anyone help me?
Title: Re: Full Scan Will not Scan Removable Drives
Post by: REDACTED on December 19, 2017, 07:53:49 PM
Avast, do you not care that your product is not working? Why won't you help me?
Title: Re: Full Scan Will not Scan Removable Drives
Post by: MartinZ on December 21, 2017, 01:12:41 PM
Hi, could you please try to scan just the 16GB flash drive and 500GB USB drive separetely via Targeted Scan?
Title: Re: Full Scan Will not Scan Removable Drives
Post by: REDACTED on December 22, 2017, 08:20:28 PM
Hi, could you please try to scan just the 16GB flash drive and 500GB USB drive separetely via Targeted Scan?
Yes. I removed "all removable media" this week, and scanned them that way. The separate scans took longer, though, and I would rather not have to scan them separately. Is there a way to fix the problem, not just work around it?


Now Windows Backup keeps giving me an error code (0x81000037), which, while a different, recurring issue, I can't solve this time. Since that is Microsoft software, I doubt I will find much help here. While clean booting and turning Avast's shields off sometimes solved that in the past, it hasn't this time. I also have tried running CheckDisk in safe mode, and the two methods combined have been enough to fix the problem together in the past, but not this time.
Title: Re: Full Scan Will not Scan Removable Drives
Post by: bob3160 on December 22, 2017, 09:25:46 PM
See if this helps:
https://www.pagestart.com/win7br0x8100003701.html
Title: Re: Full Scan Will not Scan Removable Drives
Post by: REDACTED on December 22, 2017, 09:30:05 PM
See if this helps:
https://www.pagestart.com/win7br0x8100003701.html
I already scan before backing up; I wish that would prevent the problem.