Running Avast v.11.1.2253 on Win7: I did a Boot Scan today, and saw messages on my screen about some corrupt zip files. I can not find any text file showing what I saw on the screen during the Boot Scan. (I took a photo of the screen, so I know a few of the error messages.)
Where can I find a complete list of all the error messages that occurred during the Boot Scan? It used to be aswBoot.txt, but that file is nowhere to be found on my PC.
While trying to figure this out, I found the suggestion to change my Boot Scan preferences from “Fix Automatically” to “Ask”, so hopefully, I’ll see ALL the messages in the future. But it still seems like there should be a text file of all the error messages.
It may have displayed a list, but I was in another room, and my PC just went ahead and booted up.
The messages that I saw were, for example:
File c:\BobJ’s Backups\140910 Root folders\C_THUMB DRIVE 140710.7z|>bob’s stuff_originals\cool edit\ver153\ce2kmain.exe|>%MAINDIR%\fht.hlp Error 42145 {Installer archive is corrupted.}
and
File c:\BobJ’s Backups\140911-1 bobstuff-folders\Stuff for sale 2010.7zl>Stuff for sale 2010\Equipnent to be DISCARDED\Files from Peak 100319\Symbol\MANUALS\LS3203ER Ext Rng Scanner Manuals\LS3203ER_PRG.zip|>COVER.PDF Error 42125 {ZIP archive is corrupted.}
I honestly don’t remember why I went ahead and did a Boot Scan… Must have still been asleep this morning! lol! But I saw something that suggested I do it, and since I was headed out for the morning, I figured “what the heck: do it!” I found the file “FileSystemShield.txt” in “C:\ProgramData\AVAST Software\Avast\report” that makes it look like it took about 5 hours to do it (about 900Gb to check). In the Scan History, it shows that the Boot Scan did find 3 .exe files that were moved to the Chest (old ones, not in use; just archived), and 3 url’s also moved to the Chest. So I guess the Boot Scan was worth it.