Possible to start Avast from CD boot?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I have a friend who has a virus on their computer (diagnosed by support), and they wondered if I knew of any answers.

I told them about Avast, but they do not have the program loaded, and even if they did it will not boot up far enough to run it.

Is there an option to download Avast to a Self-starting CD to run a virus check on bootup?

Thanks

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Get the Avast B.A.R.T. cd

or use Avast for DOS and the ntfs4dos util from Sysinternals.

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Normlawr, welcome to forums…
If the system has Windows XP, you can schedule a boot-time scanning…

Start avast! > Right click the skin > Schedule a boot-time scanning
Select for scanning archives.
Boot.

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I think you missed a spot Technical ;D

and even if they did it will not boot up far enough to run it.
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Yeah, you’re right and I’m wrong :-[
Can the user boot in Safe Mode?
Can it boot in Windows Console?
Which is the OS anyway?

If the computer can’t boot I think the problem won’t be solved by avast :cry:

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No, the computer won’t boot up at all. I can get to the screen with bootup options such as safe mode, last working config. etc., but after hitting one of those, the system shows the windows xp splash, and then darkness.

I put a Norton disk in that I own, and it is 2002, so probably does not have the needed virus defs. This was able to do a scan as the computer booted up, and found no viruses. Again, though I think there is no way that it would find a recent virus.

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this does not look like a virus to me, more like a damaged OS. Try a in-place repair.

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Sounds like you may be right about that now that I think about it a bit more. I’ll give it a shot.

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I though the same… My previous post could be read in this way: If the computer can’t boot I think the problem won’t be solved by avast.