Why Won't Avast 5.0

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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work in “Safe Mode”?. Avast Home 4.8 did and I expected that 5.0 would too.

regards
johnb1
LouisianaMan

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it needs drivers to be loaded, and safe mode can’t do that, otherwise it wouldn’t be called safe mode anymore. Thing I’m surprised V4 could run in safe mode, never checked that when I was using it, never had to actually :wink: … or I just don’t remember it.

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avast 4.8 ‘never’ ran in safe mode on boot (that is the whole point of safe mode), yes you could start it from the desktop shortcut icon to run an on-demand scan, but it ‘never’ ran on booting into safe mode.

I haven’t tried that with 5.0 but I dare say it would too, however I have never had a requirement to do a safe mode scan as my OS supports the scheduling of a boot-time scan, which is preferable to a safe mode scan.

So why do you feel the need to run avast in safe mode ?

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DavidR

Once a week (for 2 years that I have used avast) I would do a security check of my computer. I would boot into “Safe Mode” and then run my security ckecks/scans. Avast 4.8 was one of security scans I would do. The splash screen would come up and show the memory being scanned and then the simple user interface would come up and I would do a “thorough scan”.

So I beg to differ. I thank you for your reply.

regards
johnb1
LouisianaMan

Vista Home Premium, SP2, 64Bit, Dell 435T, 6GB RAM, IE8, Avast Antivirus 5.0, Spybot S&D, ZoneAlarmPro, Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware, Windows Defender, Windows Malicious Software Removal, SuperAntiSpyware, Spyware Blaster, and cCleaner, Glary Utilities, Dialup.

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Well in your case your OS Vista 64bit can’t use the boot-time scan, sense my remark about OS version supporting it, currently unavailable for 64bit OSes.

However, if you checked the task manager after booting into safe mode what avast processes or services were loaded and running. You don’t say how you ran the avast scan, that was one reason the desktop shortcut was there to be able to launch a scan in safe mode. Try accessing the avast chest from safe mode.

avast 5.1 is hopefully going to be able to also schedule a boot-time scan as are other 32bit OS versions (for those OSes that can use avast5).