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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: rickbeare on December 07, 2009, 11:40:03 PM

Title: Windows 7 - 64bit Home edition has not Boot time scan
Post by: rickbeare on December 07, 2009, 11:40:03 PM

I have a new Compaq system loaded with Avast Pro on it. I went to schedule a boot time scan and the option is grayed out.

I have Avast Pro loaded on a blade PC and Virtual machines that are running fine, the only difference is they are on Windows 7 Business Edition

Does anybody have any clues as to where to look for this problem?
 I have already removed and reinstalled Avast, still same problem. Also when installing there is no option to setup a boot time scan as well

Title: Re: Windows 7 - 64bit Home edition has not Boot time scan
Post by: Hermite15 on December 07, 2009, 11:47:54 PM

there's no problem, ie nothing that can be solved atm, avast boot scan is currently not compatible with 64 OS, 5.0 won't be either, but 5.1 will be  ;) (5.0 will be out soon after the holidays, and 5.1 sometime next year...)

Title: Re: Windows 7 - 64bit Home edition has not Boot time scan
Post by: Tarq57 on December 08, 2009, 12:00:43 AM

Yes, no boot scan possible in 64bit OS. (Yet)
But this raises the question: Why do you want to perform a boot scan? Are you having problems with a malware that cannot be moved/quarantined?