I ran a Boot-Time scan today and I could see that it was finding some issues. As it was taking a very long time, I went to do other things while it was scanning.
When I came back, the computer had restarted, but I did not see any further information about the scan. After opening the Premier dashboard, I still didn’t see anything.
Is there anything I am supposed to be doing now that a Boot-Time scan has been run? Or does it do everything that is supposed to happen automatically and just leaves a log somewhere for me to find out afterward?
It may just have been slow rather than detecting anything, previously the boot-time scan was interactive it would notify you of any detections and seek an action (based on your settings).
Was there a particular reason you ran a boot time scan ?
Did you change any of the boot-time scan settings ?
From memory there should be a report file created for the boot-time scan, I think it is called aswboot.log or aswboot.txt in the C:\ProgramData\AVAST Software\Avast\log or C:\ProgramData\AVAST Software\Avast\report folder.
There was no particular reason that I ran it, other than I saw that scan and thought, “I don’t know that I have ever run one of these - maybe that is a good idea to make sure everything continues to run well.”
I haven’t changed any boot-time scan settings.
I will take a look for those reports to see if there is anything that should come up.
It could have also been interactive, but it was taking a while. When I have a bit more time I will run it again and see if there is anything interactive that shows up.
I have in the past run the boot time scan when testing and had a couple of test locations with the eicar test files and if I was away when running it, it would waiting for my response.