is a boot scan the same type of scan , as one that is performed within the avast program, provided the settings are the same. so if i do a boot scan of local disk, with archives selected, would i then need to perform a scan with the avast program? many thanks adam
As far I know if you select to scan archives in both boot time scanning and Home version, you will have the same detection rate. Even the Professional version will give you the same in a on-demand scanning. Professional version is able to do on-access scanning of archives which on-demand canātā¦
One other slight difference (between boot-time and ānormalā on-demand scans) Iād questioned a week or two ago and Vlk was kind enough to confirm.
If youāve set up exclusions (folders which are nothing but JPGās, for example), a boot-time thorough local-disk scan will ignore your exclusions and scan everything. Thatās apparently because when running the boot scan, avast doesnāt yet have access to the setup info where youāve defined the exclusions.
Or at least thatās the case in Home, and itās a reasonable guess that the same is true in Pro also.
Also, the boot-time scanner doesnāt support so many archives as the Win32 version (the Windows GUI version). I believe only ARJ and ZIP are in fact supportedā¦
Vlk
Will that change in 4.5?
It will be good
Why arenāt these information on the help files?
Iām afraid itās not very likely :-\
The help says:
āThis scanner supports the following archives: ZIP, ARJ, self-extracting EXE and NTFS stream.ā
It is on page āEnhanced User Interface Menuā, which is probably not very good place for it.
No, I think notā¦
There is a specific page for the Boot time scanning (howto_simple_test_po_restartu.htm). Maybe the features of the boot time scanning including the archive scanning should be thereā¦