Boot-time scan doesn't work

[ejwahl]

I installed Avast 4 Pro (demo) today on a Win XP Home machine.  Scheduling a boot-time scan does not work.  The screen pops up during the boot sequence and reports that 0 files were scanned and then proceeds to boot XP.  I've tried selecting all local disks and C:\Windows\System32 but nothing is scanned.  If I try to schedule again it shows that the schedule is blank, as if I had never scheduled a boot-time scan.

I previously had Avast 4 Home installed but completely uninstalled it and rebooted before installing the Pro trial version.  The boot-time scan worked fine in the Home version.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Erich

[Vlk]

WOW COOL FISH!! Is that a real picture of you???  

Back to your Q, what version of avast do you have? 4.0.172?

Please send me the report file - <avast4>\data\report\aswBoot.log. Doesn't the program give you any warning/error messages?

Thanks
Vlk

[ejwahl]

I must schedule a boot-time scan every time before I reboot (rather than schedule it once and it runs every time I reboot) with the new aswBoot.exe that you sent me.  Is that a bug or a feature?

Thanks,
Erich

[Vlk]

This is a feature. We didn't expect that anyone would like to run it every time when starting the computer as usually it takes a long time to complete (you can always abort it by pressing Esc, though...).

Would like to see this feature added in the next release? For us, it wouldn't really be a problem...


For other users: there was a bug in the boot-time scan module in version 4.0.172 and earlier (with the symptoms described in the first post of this thread). It will be fixed in the next program update.


Vlk