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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: WVB on January 11, 2008, 09:39:04 PM

Title: Boot up scan disk...
Post by: WVB on January 11, 2008, 09:39:04 PM

Hello,

My parents (who live in another state) seem to be having virus issues with their computer. I am wondering if there is a way to make a start up disc / floppy disk so that it will scan the computer before booting up into windows xp..?

Title: Re: Boot up scan disk...
Post by: Lisandro on January 12, 2008, 01:04:00 AM

No, there isn't. But you can you schedule a boot-time scanning:

Click on the Menu button.
Choose Schedule Boot Time Scan.
Doing so displays a dialog allowing you to schedule virus scanning.
Check Archives, if you want scan all the archives.
Specify whether all the disks or just a specific folder should be scanned.
Select Advanced options for scheduling details.
Select how to automatically process infected files.
Choose how to automatically process infected system files.
Click the Schedule button to confirm the settings.

If infected files are found, it's safer to send them to Chest instead of deleting them.
This way you can further analysis them.