system
1
avast ask to me to restart my computer and authorizing scan on boot. that i did.
can i cancel this scan that is very long (too long, i must work with my computer)
thank-you for all your answers.
F.P.
Pondus
2
avast ask to me to restart my computer and authorizing scan on boot. that i did.
why did it ask you to do that...was anything detected?
what was detected?
malware name given by avast?
location of the file detected...full file path....
system
3
webcake,
avast push it an quarantine .
As it was too long, i have stop my computer with a long push on poweron switch; on reboot i have no indication of scan progress , i hope it continue the scan ; the hard disk seems to work sometime. It looks like my computer is blocked.
What can i do, now ? waiting … ?
thank you
F.P.
the full path : i did not note that
Hi,
What is the version of you system?
system
5
seven Pro
thank you for your interest
F.P.
Please download Farbar Recovery Scan Tool x64 and save it to a flash drive.
[*]Plug the flashdrive into the infected PC.
[*]Restart your computer and tap F8 to bring up the Advanced Menu, then click Repair your computer
[*]Follow the prompt to enter keyboard input method, and then the prompt to enter a password. If the machine does not have a password, simply click Enter.
In the next menu, use the arrow keys on the keyboard to highlight Command Prompt and press Enter.
[*] In the command window type in notepad and press Enter.
[*] When notepad opens, click File and select Open.
[*]Select “Computer” and find your flash drive letter and close the notepad.
[*]In the command window type e:\frst64.exe and press Enter.
Note: Replace letter e with the drive letter of your flash drive.
[*]The tool will start to run. When the tool opens click Yes to disclaimer.
[*]Press Scan button.
It will make a log (FRST.txt) on the flash drive. Please attach it to your reply.
DavidR
7
If this was your first installation of avast ?
Then this is usually offered to ensure a clean start state, but it doesn’t happen on every boot.
The boot-time scan is a special/specific scan that you have to schedule to run on the next boot, it is a one shot deal, if you want to run again you have to schedule it.
system
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Thank you very much for your answer.
TwinHeadedEagle,
with time, the problem is solved. It went on 3 hours scan time … my computer is runing well again.
I noted your solution ; it can be usefull another day . I Will download this tool.
My hard drive is a velociraptor 250MB, i imagine the problem with a 1To HD as system drive.
I have seen that avast was scanning $recycle directory , it wrote 0% for a long time : why a directory containing deleted files ?
DavidR
avast as been installed for 3 years, my problem happened after a detection of webcake that is consided as a malware.
avast should give an estimation of time scan when it propose a reboot with scan
F.P.
DavidR
9
Yes after a detection, avast will suggest a boot-time scan to ensure there isn’t something else (possibly hidden when windows is running normally) other than that which was detected.
I would say it is going to be difficult for avast to give an estimate as this is a thorough scan, which will also unpack archives for scanning.