Hi, I may be (probably) doing something wrong here. I’ve installed the 4.8 Professional on trial on Windows 7 running on BootCamp on a MacBook Pro. I started out trying a boot time scan, but gave up after only getting to 11% after two hours. Trying a standard scan from within Windows is more like how it should be, 80% in a few minutes. My BootCamp drive is 32Gb, probably no more than 10 Gb used. No other anti virus or protection apps installed. More or less a “virgin” Windows 7 system. Could it be trying to scan my Mac partition too? And maybe getting hung up on that? Any thoughts anyone?
Its definitely not scanning the Mac Partition, as Mac drives are formatted as HFS+, which can not be read under windows without 3rd party software.
Hallo,
BootTime scanner runs in different environment - the Windows system isn’t booted up to the full, and there’s probably still some dependence on some BIOS-related thing, that makes it slow (because BIOS is placed on the top of EFI, by BootCamp, and this layer has still some quirks/inefficences).
Try newer/latest version of BootCamp, whether the performance penalty is still there.
regards,
pc
Also, you may try to check the option “Disable raw disk access in avast! boot-time scan” on the Troubleshooting page of avast! settings - even though even if it changed anything, I really wouldn’t know what to conclude.