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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: 50crckt51 on November 14, 2009, 09:56:07 PM

Title: Avast Pro demo options question?
Post by: 50crckt51 on November 14, 2009, 09:56:07 PM

In the avast professional demo the option to run a boot time scan is greyed out. As well as a number of other options - why is this?

Title: Re: Avast Pro demo options question?
Post by: DavidR on November 14, 2009, 10:00:10 PM

There are no limitations in the trial version.

If you are using a 64bit OS boot-time scanning isn't currently possibly so that is why it is greyed out. Without more information on the others it is impossible to say.

Title: Re: Avast Pro demo options question?
Post by: 50crckt51 on November 14, 2009, 10:06:23 PM

Thank you for the promt reply! That I was unaware of, I am curious do you know of any real time scanner that is capable of boot time scanning a 64 bit OS?

Title: Re: Avast Pro demo options question?
Post by: DavidR on November 15, 2009, 12:29:37 AM

As far as I'm aware there are no real-time AV capable of a boot-time scan even on 32bit other than avast.

avast are working on the boot-time scan feature for the new version of avast 5, not the 5.0 version but likely to be for the 5.1 version.