I’ve been having an issue with Avast boot scan for a couple weeks now. Let’s put the technical info up first
Windows 7 Home Premium (x64)
Avast Internet Security
Program Version: 7.0.1473
Definition Version: 121025-2
So, I can do a Full Scan with Avast, no problems there. I also use Malwarebytes as a scanning tool as well. Both scans come up clean, and finish without incident.
However, I do a boot scan from time to time as well, and for the past couple weeks I haven’t been able to complete one. What happens is that after about 2-3min of boot scanning (which starts up without incident) the scan crashes back to startup, and the PC is unable to load the OS. The PC attempts to perform startup repair to fix the issue but no issue is repaired. I suspect there’s no real problem with the drive, just the nature of the crash because I can abort the startup repair and boot normally without issue.
There are no other symptoms to speak of. The PC runs fine temperature-wise, no indication of infection (clean scans with Avast full scan and MBAM), and no stability issues during day-to-day operation (gaming, web browsing, etc.).
I’m at a bit of a loss as to what’s going on. Any help would be appreciated.
Update: I managed to get the scan to run for about 15-20min on the last go. However, it crashed again with the same result.