Boot time Scan or regular scan

[hags1960]

I was curious as to what is better a boot time scan or a regular  scan which 1 picks up the virus or trojans if found.

[Lisandro]

The boot time scanner have full access to all files. The regular scan with the administrator account has enough access rights.
Both can be configurated to scan archives.
So, I will run regular scans (monthly) in one or each way. Not that often, with archive scanning turned on

[DavidR]

They both use the same virus database, so technically it would be the same, however, it also depends on the settings that you use in either scan.

The boot-time scan is normally used if a detection is found in the normal windows mode and avast can't deal with the problem whilst windows is running, e.g. a file in use by another program, virus in memory, etc.

It is at those times that you would schedule a boot-time scan, it isn't there as a substitute to the conventional on-demand scans this you run periodically (you decide the duration, etc.).