ZwQueryValueKey - BootExecute Error: 0x80000005

[effjay]

I scheduled a boot  time scan and get this message - don't know what this means, tho

It seems to complete the scan anyway, but it also seems to do that very quickly, so I assume it doesn't scan everything.

Hints are appreciated

By the way, I really like avast. Nice work!

Regards
Daniel

PS: using windows xp, sp1

[igor]

It means that your
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\BootExecute
registry value contains more data than normally expected.
What do you have there?

[effjay]

I have this here there (3 lines):

autocheck autochk *
OODBS
aswBoot.exe /A:"C:\WINDOWS\addins;C:\WINDOWS\AppPatch;C:\WINDOWS\assembly;
C:\WINDOWS\Cache;C:\WINDOWS\Config;C:\WINDOWS\Connection Wizard;
C:\WINDOWS\Cursors;C:\WINDOWS\Debug;C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Installations;
C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files;C:\WINDOWS\Driver Cache;C:\WINDOWS\Fonts;
C:\WINDOWS\Help;C:\WINDOWS\IIS Temporary Compressed Files;C:\WINDOWS\ime;
C:\WINDOWS\inf;C:\WINDOWS\java;C:\WINDOWS\LastGood;
C:\WINDOWS\LastGood.Tmp;C:\WINDOWS\Media;C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET;C:\WINDOWS\Minidump;C:\WINDOWS\msagent;
C:\WINDOWS\msapps;C:\WINDOWS\mui;C:\WINDOWS\Offline Web Pages;C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth;
C:\WINDOWS\PeerNet;C:\WINDOWS\PIF;C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch;
C:\WINDOWS\pss;C:\WINDOWS\RegisteredPackages;C:\WINDOWS\Registration;C:\WINDOWS\repair;
C:\WINDOWS\Resources;C:\WINDOWS\security;C:\WINDOWS\ShellNew;C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution;C:\WINDOWS\srchasst;
C:\WINDOWS\Sun;C:\WINDOWS\system;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS\Tasks;C:\WINDOWS\Temp;C:\WINDOWS\twain_32;
C:\WINDOWS\Web;C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS" /L:"German"

Does it tell you something? Looks ok?

Regards
Daniel

[igor]

Well, the buffer for the registry value has limited size (in the boot-time scanner) - so it's probably not able to load the whole of it.
Please, delete the aswBoot.exe part in regedit (keep just the first 2 lines) and schedule the boot-time scan again, preferably using a shorter part (C:\Windows, for example).