AVAST BOOT TIME SCAN SCHEDULED WITHOUT NOTIFICATION AND NOT BOOT TIME SCAN CANNOT BE CANCELLED AND IT WILL SCAN ALL MY DRIVES i.e. 1TB that has free space of 200 gb only. i.e. 80% filled.
Can someone suggest how to cancel it.
AVAST BOOT TIME SCAN SCHEDULED WITHOUT NOTIFICATION AND NOT BOOT TIME SCAN CANNOT BE CANCELLED AND IT WILL SCAN ALL MY DRIVES i.e. 1TB that has free space of 200 gb only. i.e. 80% filled.
Can someone suggest how to cancel it.
Have you had a very recent detection with avast ?
In some cases that dialogue window will suggest running a boot time scan, depending on how you answer that dialogue window, could run the boot-time scan on the next boot.
Before a boot-time scan is run it will offer to download the latest virus definitions (prior to reboot), see attached image.
If the boot-time scan is actually running, the Esc key should abort the scan.
Did you try that and if so what type of keyboard connection do you have, USB or PS2 ?
If you go into the avast UI >
In almost 14 years of using avast free, I have never had a boot-time scan run that I didn’t initiate.