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Boot-time Exclusions Needed
« on: May 05, 2014, 11:46:44 PM »
The one thing I don't like about the boot-time scan is the lack of an option to setup exclusions. Because of this lack the boot-time scan has a tendency to carp on the efforts of and waste time on malware already found and quarantined by other anti-virus/malware programs. Other than that I think Avast is the best anti-virus program and I recommend it to my customers on a regular basis.

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Re: Boot-time Exclusions Needed
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2014, 12:15:49 AM »
Although you can't select what to exclude, you can select what to include:



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Re: Boot-time Exclusions Needed
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2014, 12:20:00 AM »
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Because of this lack the boot-time scan has a tendency to carp on the efforts of and waste time on malware already found and quarantined by other anti-virus/malware programs.
why dont you just empty the quarantine on those programs....

anyway, what programs are they?

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Re: Boot-time Exclusions Needed
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2014, 09:31:32 AM »
The boot-time scan should honor the global exclusions set in the program (Settings / Antivirus / Exclusions / File paths). Doesn't it?