...while I'm running a through(with archives checked) scan of the HD

:o :o :o
If archive scanning is turned off, it does not happen?

But come on, a REBOOT? A REBOOT??? :o ???

There must be some really tricky file on your disk that just crashes avast. We’d need more help from your side – we ultimately need to get the file. Please turn on the generation of the report file (with all files written to the report). The crashing file will be somewhere “near” the last file that will be in the report (due to disk caching and other stuff, it’s unlikely that the report file in its entirety will be flushed to the disk before the reboot - hence it will not be simply the last file in the report)… :frowning:

Vlk