Does the slider on the Simple User Interface that controls the “thoroughness” of the scan control the boot-time scan?
If not, can the thoroughness of the boot-time scan be controlled?
If not, how “thorough” is the scheduled boot-time scan compared to a scan initiated in present time on the SUI?
Does it scan only areas that cannot be accessed after boot?
No it doesn’t, that is for on-demand scans whilst windows is running.
Since you have already had an excursion through the boot-time advanced settings to set to send to the chest, you will see there is no sensitivity level. You can only elect what locations to scan (all drives or selected paths) and if archives are selected. If all drives are selected and archives also that would be a pretty thorough scan.
Personally I never select archives - Archive (zip, rar, etc.) files are by their nature are inert, you need to extract the files and then you have to run them to be a threat. Long before that happens avast’s Standard Shield should have scanned them and before an executable is run that is scanned.
Also re on-demand scans.
Thorough is also by its design very thorough and perhaps a little overkill for routine use, were a Standard scan without archives should be adequate.
I understand. Thank you for the thorough answer and the advice.
No problem, glad I could help.
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