Greatly appreciate your time & help igor, in this puzzling occurrence, as well as Tech's recommendation (which I already fully agreed with). thx
Altho not quite "tech savvy" enough to fully understand the contents of my aswBoot.log, it did seem VERY lengthy to me, considering my actual keypresses, or input of any kind, was minimal (less than 3 or 4 keypresses) in this short aborted bootscan. I definitely
never held down the space key at any point, or the other listed key combinations, for that matter.
This problem occurred on my laptop
(using my desktop now), which has had the keyboard replaced 2x prior, due to sticking and/or non-functioning keys. Your info surely makes me believe there is a problem in my keyboard, or in it's communication with my system, and
not avast.
Other than hitting key "5" for "Send To Chest" (twice, each individually), on the first 2 avast detections, I did hit the ↑ and ↓ arrow keys briefly (to try to see more of the scan data on my monitor), just before hitting the "Esc" key to abort the scan to avoid further file deletions. But I assure you, NO other keypresses took place.
Luckily, most of the file deletions were older, outdated programs (i.e. TDS-3 Trojan Detection, J-Wire, etc.), which were uninstalled from my systems or never installed. These files were simply in a "downloaded files folder". I really don't care that
these particular ones were deleted, but my MAIN concern is that
anything was deleted without my input or desire.
I plan to try to recover all these deleted files, with a recovery program,
only to submit them to Avast, as I believe most, if not all, of these deletions were false positives. Since they were detected, I would like to have Avast take a closer look at them.