I installed Avast 4 Pro (demo) today on a Win XP Home machine. Scheduling a boot-time scan does not work. The screen pops up during the boot sequence and reports that 0 files were scanned and then proceeds to boot XP. I’ve tried selecting all local disks and C:\Windows\System32 but nothing is scanned. If I try to schedule again it shows that the schedule is blank, as if I had never scheduled a boot-time scan.
I previously had Avast 4 Home installed but completely uninstalled it and rebooted before installing the Pro trial version. The boot-time scan worked fine in the Home version.
I must schedule a boot-time scan every time before I reboot (rather than schedule it once and it runs every time I reboot) with the new aswBoot.exe that you sent me. Is that a bug or a feature?
This is a feature. We didn’t expect that anyone would like to run it every time when starting the computer as usually it takes a long time to complete (you can always abort it by pressing Esc, though…).
Would like to see this feature added in the next release? For us, it wouldn’t really be a problem…
For other users: there was a bug in the boot-time scan module in version 4.0.172 and earlier (with the symptoms described in the first post of this thread). It will be fixed in the next program update.