Author Topic: Why Boot Scan not support auto-remove functions?  (Read 5935 times)

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J.Stalin

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Re: Why Boot Scan not support auto-remove functions?
« Reply #15 on: January 21, 2011, 06:49:44 PM »
Igor.
Please explain about the the sched.exe tool. ???

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Re: Why Boot Scan not support auto-remove functions?
« Reply #16 on: January 21, 2011, 07:45:35 PM »
The explanation is always the same: These options are dangerous.
Dangerous? And what will happen with a common user when use them? Lose data? Lose the capacity to boot?
What is dangerous here?

I really don't understand why the "ignore" option was dangerous, and had to be removed. ???
The "ignore" option did exactly what everyone asks for, it made babysitting the boot scan unnecessary.
The ignore does nothing... The dangerousness is just letting the infection in your computer...

The statement has been that the "ignore" option would be re-implemented in v5.1. It was not...
Exactly... We want all the actions back... and we want security also :)
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Re: Why Boot Scan not support auto-remove functions?
« Reply #17 on: January 21, 2011, 08:30:56 PM »
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Please read the contribution before you answer it.
I did not write about the delete option, but about the ignore option.
I did not write about letting the infection stay in the Pc.

I will try to find out if the shed.exe tool is useful, as Igor writes.
Otherwise, here is a small boot time scan "workaround" that i succesfully have used with v.5. I guess it will not be official methode, but it works:
1) Start the boot time scanner and notice where it starts the scan.
2) Exit the scanner and start Windows.
3) Turn off the Avast web scanner and download a virus to the area where the boot scanner starts the scan.
4) Optimize the speed by renaming the virus file name to start with "a"
5) Start the boot time scanner, and when it detects the virus, choose "ignore all".
6) When the scan is finished, read the scan log and take necessary action.

BINGO  ;D  Almost as in the good old v4.8 days.... 

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Re: Why Boot Scan not support auto-remove functions?
« Reply #18 on: January 21, 2011, 09:59:11 PM »
No need to download a virus, just use the eicar test file, that cause avast to alert.
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Re: Why Boot Scan not support auto-remove functions?
« Reply #19 on: January 22, 2011, 12:47:25 AM »
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Please read the contribution before you answer it.
I've tried :)

I did not write about the delete option, but about the ignore option.
I understand and agree. Just posted some different aspects.

I did not write about letting the infection stay in the Pc.
Well... It could be a side effect of the ignore option...

Like David, I don't think it's a good method... not even a workaround.

Maybe I'm missing some technical difficulties as I'm not a programmer not an expert.
Maybe avast team could post a little more technical difficulties about it.
Can't digital signatures be validated at boot time?
Can't avast have a white list of necessary files to boot Windows?
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