Boot time scan

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
1

A few observations:

  1. Why is boot-time scan date not shown in the main normal scanning window? I am talking about the skinless user interface. My date is still 6th July. So seldom I do the on demand scans that would have hoped it had updated, did a whole HD scan.

  2. The scan cannot be scheduled from a Limited user account but I had to go to Admin account to initiate it. Just a minor nuisance, but sure could be made possible to “order” it from a limited user account as all the other stuff work so well in Avast using that?

2

I doubt that there will be a boot-time scan date recorded anywhere as by its nature it is run before windows starts.
So I believe the Date of Last Scan: you are talking about, is the last time you ran a full scan of your HDD/Local Disks from the on-demand interface, partial scans aren’t considered in this case and as mentioned above it won’t be updated because the windows interface isn’t running when you do a boot-time scan.

3

The date there, like David said, is not for any ‘area’ scanning (even you choose everything). You should run HDD scans to have a new date there.

What do you mean: the Professional version or the Home one? If Home one, isn’t it a Windows Task Scheduler limitation?

4
Quote from: Jarmo P on Today at 02:14:42 AM 2. The scan cannot be scheduled from a Limited user account but I had to go to Admin account to initiate it. Just a minor nuisance, but sure could be made possible to "order" it from a limited user account as all the other stuff work so well in Avast using that? What do you mean: the Professional version or the Home one? If Home one, isn't it a Windows Task Scheduler limitation?

I have XP Home. I have no idea if it is possible to schedule boot time scan or not to Avast from limited user account.
But if it is, would be good, cause I never knew until I read one thread that it was possible to do that at all. Always thought, hmmm, this must be a Pro version feature cause seems not to be working.

5

I think that the problem is the limited user account and windows not allowing it to boot the system when that could effect other users, even if none are logged on (I don’t think windows would check). So I believe it is a restriction of windows and a limited user account rather than avast not allowing it.

6

No, I was talking about avast! Home or Professional version…
The hability of scheduling a boot time scanning is restricted to the administrators by Windows Security Policy… I think we can’t change it easily because you’ll need access to restricted Registry Keys.

avast! boot time scanning works both on Home and Professional versions with both Home and Professional Windows XP.

7

  1. This feature (updating the “Last full scan” date to reflect even the last boot-time scan, if “all local disks” were chosen) will be present in the next version of avast!.

  2. To schedule the boot-time scan, it’s necessary to have write access to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System part of the registry. This is typically not possible from the limited account. Well, I guess it would be possible to arrange (at least if avast! resident protection is running) - but I’m sort of not sure if it’s the best idea…