How do I export boot time scan log in avast 5?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I ran a boot time scan from Avast! 5 and it found 1075 VBS:ExeDropper-gen Trojans in I386 and various other key system files. It deleted them successfully, and to my surprise, the system actually booted back up after. Now, I had not chosen to create a report in the scan settings as the PC appeared to be clean via every other known scan and I was not suspecting anything to come up,

Is there any way to export the scan results from Scan Computer>Scan Logs>Boot-time scan, or find those results in the awil folder somewhere since I didn’t have it set in advance to generate a log?

If not I suppose I can screenshot 1075 lines individually, but honestly I am really dreading that as I am going to have to create a script to replace all the deleted files with clean versions of those same files, basically every OS and program file ending in .htm or .html is now gone and I suspect that is going to cause problems down the road.

Thanks in advance :slight_smile:

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Look in the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Alwil Software\Avast5\report\aswBoot.txt file, check this file using notepad for info on the scan/detections, etc.

Vista will have a different location, C\Users of something like that rather than docs and settings/

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Thank you thank you! You have made my life so much easier when I attempt to restore unaltered versions of each of these files.

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You’re welcome.

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It seems that the location of the Avast5 boot-time scan log file on Windows Vista isn’t very well known. It should be found at:

C:\ProgramData\Alwil Software\Avast5\report\aswBoot.txt

Hopefully this will help some people.