Error message after boot-time scan

After a boot-time scan was finished, I received the following error message:

Interactive log on process initialization has failed. Please consult the event log for more details.

Can someone please tell me where the event log is?

The reason why I ran the boot-time scan is because I clicked on a link from a google search result. I was redirected to hxxp://antispyware-for-all.com/promo3/?aid=1504 As soon as I was on the page, the virus warning window popped up. Whenever that happens in the past, I always click on abort the connection right away. This time I didn’t because I wanted to write everything down, the link and name of Trojan (JS.fakeAV-K [trojan]). It took me a few minutes before I clicked on abort the connection. Since it was a few minutes, I wanted to be on the safe side.

Before I did the boot-time scan, I ran SAS, and it didn’t find anything. Neither did the boot-time scan. After reading some past messages here, I realize I should’ve done a regular scan first. I did do a standard scan, and it didn’t find anything either.

In the past, when I’ve had problems and told by someone here to run a boot-time scan, I haven’t been able to. It would turn off my computer before it was completed. For some reason, it didn’t do it this time. However, after I clicked ok after the error message, it either couldn’t restart normally so went into sleep mode or automatically went into sleep mode. When I hit my mouse for it to come out of sleep mode, my computer restarted, but the monitor was black with pink, blue, and green lines on the bottom. So, I held down the off button on my computer until it restarted.

I apologize for this being so long. I just want to make sure the Trojan didn’t load on my computer since I didn’t click on abort the connection right away.


Most likely, you have no infection since avast caught it as soon as you got to the infected page.

Since SAS also found nothing, you might want to try malwarebytes antimalware (MBAM) as a third opinion. http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php


Thank you. Since my post, I also ran MBAM, and it didn’t find anything either.

Do you know anything about the error message I received after running the boot-time scan, and where the event log would be?

Interactive log on process initialization has failed. Please consult the event log for more details.

The report file is created automatically in \Data\Report\aswBoot.txt
You can also open avast Log Viewer to check the logs.