avast scan query

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 :slight_smile:

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 canā€™tā€¦ :wink:

One other slight difference (between boot-time and ā€œnormalā€ on-demand scans) Iā€™d questioned a week or two ago and Vlk was kind enough to confirm.

If youā€™ve set up exclusions (folders which are nothing but JPGā€™s, for example), a boot-time thorough local-disk scan will ignore your exclusions and scan everything. Thatā€™s apparently because when running the boot scan, avast doesnā€™t yet have access to the setup info where youā€™ve defined the exclusions.

Or at least thatā€™s the case in Home, and itā€™s a reasonable guess that the same is true in Pro also.

Also, the boot-time scanner doesnā€™t 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 :stuck_out_tongue:
Why arenā€™t these information on the help files? :frowning:

Iā€™m afraid itā€™s not very likely :-\

The help says:
ā€œThis scanner supports the following archives: ZIP, ARJ, self-extracting EXE and NTFS stream.ā€

It is on page ā€˜Enhanced 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€¦ :wink: