Resident Protection Automatically Disabled In Safe Mode?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Whenever I run Avast in safe mode, the “control panel” says, “Resident Protection: Disabled.” I am able to click on the “a” icon and enable it, but for some reason, it defaults to “Disabled” in safe mode. In regular mode, it says, “Resident Protection: Custom.” Is this normal?

OS: Windows XP SP3 / Avast 4.8 (latest program and database)

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avast! drivers are not loaded in safe mode… so yes, it’s normal.

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So should I just leave it disabled when I scan in safe mode?

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In order to be able to scan in safe mode you have to start avast and you do that by clicking on the avast desktop icon (shortcut to ashAvast.exe), that starts avast, does a memory scan and opens the simple user interface to do your scan.

So I would say you don’t need to do anything else once the scan is complete reboot into normal mode…

However this begs the question, why would you need to do a scan from safe mode ?
When with XP SP3 (32bit) you should be able to do a boot-time scan to run before windows starts and is better on both detection and dealing with any detections found as windows isn’t running.

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Thanks for that info - I didn’t know that. So I will just schedule a boot-time scan next time.

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You’re welcome.

It also has the advantage it doesn’t mess with your screen resolution and icons booting into safe mode ;D