Hi my name is Aaron and this is my 1st post to the Avast Forums. I have been really impressed with Avast through the last 4 years and think it is one of the best AVs out there.
Before I got Avast, I had norton which expired on me and I went without updated definitions for a few months. In that time I picked up some malware which Avast removed for me. This was about 3 years ago. I also left part of it quaranteened until recently when I decided to allow avast to delete it from some sensitive operating areas. I ended up reinstalling my OS and running through a series of cleaning steps with help from Smartest Computing. They did a great job!
So my system is malware free now but Avast won't do a boot-time scan. I checked the settings and made sure the option was ticked and have it scheduled. But when I restart my computer, it doesn't do the boot scan, it just starts to Windows like normal.
I tried using the uninstaller app and reinstalled Avast a number of times, even manually deleting any references to Avast in the registry but no dice!
Does anyone know how to get Avast boot scan working again? Where does Avast boot from when it does the boot scan, does it boot off of the PQservice, hidden recovery partition? I ask because my partition may be corrupted but I don't know for sure. Any help would be greately appreciated. Thanks!