Author Topic: rescue disk vs boot time scan  (Read 1716 times)

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rescue disk vs boot time scan
« on: January 19, 2015, 10:39:11 PM »
i created a rescue usb stick and ran the scanner including all disks and archive files. it did find a number of things which i deleted. i then rebooted with the rescue stick and ran it again and it came up "clean".

after i thought the pc was "clean", i installed the free version and then ran a boot time scan. the boot time scan found some more stuff.

do either one of the scanners really get everything?

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Re: rescue disk vs boot time scan
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2015, 11:49:02 PM »
 you dont tell us what files/location that was detected, and what detection name avast gave
And there may be a difference in what areas they scan, and/or if compressed archives are unpacked .....


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Re: rescue disk vs boot time scan
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2015, 12:06:43 AM »
in the rescue disk i told it to scan all drives and to scan inside of archive files.

in the boot time scan i told it to scan all disks, set heuristics to highest value and scan inside of archive files and for pups.

so they should be scanning for the same things.