DavidR
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Why are you running a boot-time scan as it is a specialist scan, used when an infection can’t be dealt with in normal mode ?
When selecting a boot-time scan you can change the options, if I ever run one (rare as hens teeth), then I wouldn’t scan archives as:
- this is a pointless exercise as they are inert until unpacked and any executable run; before that happens the file system shield would scan the extracted files (depending on type) and scan executables before they can run.
- decompression bombs are archives, so by not scanning them you are less likely to encounter this notice.
- you can also pre-select the actions to take in the scan, see image (this is from avast 7 but is essentially the same in avast 6). Yours I would guess is set to Ask, you can choose Move to Chest or No Action (you should get a list at the end of the scan or check the boot-time log file). Under no circumstances should you choose delete, you have no other options.