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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: rob80113 on December 17, 2022, 03:33:39 PM
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For a month now, I have been unable to do the Boot-Time scan. When I load up the definitions and reboot my laptop with the scan enabled, I get a blank screen with the words 'Avast AntiVirus Loading.' Nothing happens after a while so I have to reboot it in order for Windows to reload. Prior to this, I would have no problems with this scan.
I have the latest version of the Avast Premium Security program. I have a laptop that is using the latest version of Windows 10.
Do you have any ideas as to how I might fix this?
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I believe there have been issues like this for some users
due to the use by Avast of the Windows Recovery Environment
with Boot-time scans.
I use AVG so can't speak definitively about options in Avast,
but you might try looking in the advanced settings in the
GEEK:AREA for an option to disable that feature.
In AVG it is
"Boot-Tine Scan: Run in Windows Recovery Environment (restart needed)"
Uncheck it to turn that feature off.
Image from AVG:
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hi,
in addition:
see here (https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=320643.msg1691671#msg1691671) for the workaround with the hidden "geek:area" (https://support.avast.com/en-us/article/use-antivirus-geek-settings/#pc) menu