Seems normal, I suppose, but it wasn’t really acting up to start with; I just discovered the virus when it interrupted the boot scan. Not real familiar with this machine…got it for lady taking care of my mother last summer and just borrowed it because my pc is down and won’t start windows (get to that in another post).
It’s an HP2000 and I recall it isn’t all that fast and the ATT internet service at the house was incredibly slow, plus she has it loaded down with all kinds of stuff (I’m sure she never bothered to uncheck the add-ons that came with any downloads), which I have been trying to hone down, point being I don’t have a good benchmark for how fast it should be working.
Suppose I should try another boot scan and see what happens?
I wouldn’t know the difference…seems like virus, adware, etc. are often interchangeable when referenced by companies with virus and/or adware products, so they are all just “bugs” to me. Regardless of which it is, any reason not to try another boot scan?
Just be aware that boot scan is not meant to be used as a regular scanner
Important:
Please be advised, that the Boot-time scan is an advanced and purposeful feature designed to be used [b]only[/b] when there’s something bad going on the system, and usually takes some time before it finishes. That's why it cannot be scheduled to run every time the computer starts, but as needed only.
There is no way for me to be careful about what I put in the chest, since I generally have no idea what any of the things that it hits on even are. If I have to worry about false positives, or anything else that requires ME to decide if I should fix, repair, delete or ignore, then there is no point in me ever using boot scan.
Other than seeing it in boot scan, I had no indication it was on the machine, so looking again is the only way I know to see if it’s gone…and you’re telling me the machine may lie and say it’s still there when it’s not? I give! :o
No what I am saying is that if you use patched system files i.e. themes and the like it may mark them as infected. If it is not there then it cannot report it
Well, I’ve got 111 of them on the new boot scan. I took pics of the first few, but after it passed 10 I hit ignore all, and they just scrolled down the screen. Many were related to the same basic bug, but a bunch of new ones, like relative to that recipe bar thing, showed up, too - 111 of them total - sooooooooo, what now? Oh…and my computer rebooted itself before I could send this.
I clicked ignore/ignore all; after having just been warned about “false/positives”, so avast did nothing. SURF!!! You kidding…as soon as the boot scan stopped I sent the last email to you guys…this is all I’ve done…
First, what I was trying to send when it rebooted, was my last message.
I took probably 10 or so camera pics of the first individual “threats” before hitting "ignore all’, and when it got through all the threats and settled into a regular scan, I took a pick of the last few threats still showing on the screen. Point being, I can upload the pics I took, I suppose, but it probably would make more sense to do new scans to get logs to look at - you tell me.
Look…I told you I had a bunch of pics, and you told me to upload them all along with whatever scans we need to do, and I just attached I guess only 3 or 4 pics…all it would let me, and I have a lot more…then it says file too large…so I wasted 30 minutes doing that…can you PLEASE tell me what to do that is actually plausible?
Look…the hell with me uploading pics showing that a new boot scan came up with a bunch more stuff…if your problem solving expertise lies with pics of what a boot scan came back with after you “fixed” the problem, it really doesn’t appear that you had an adequate grip on the initial problem so as to enable you to deal with the NEW 111 issues that resulted, now does it? Not trying to be mean…just realistic…like I said earlier, I’ve done this many times before, and when the “solution” is more problems, it always degenerates into a meltdown…so while I still have control over this particular machine, can you either do something or suggest something, or aim me towards someone that may be able to actually deal with this while this machine is still operable, please
Again, I’m not trying to be mean, but I simply cannot afford to not get back to work in the morning on this machine.
As soon as it finished, I downloaded unchecky, as you advised. Then after our conversation on it, I decided to do a new boot scan, and when I discovered the multitude of bugs, I downloaded picasa (not sure why it disappeared from my desktop) to take pics of the screen. When I attempted to upload them it would not let me.
This morning, while the new Frst ran, as you advised, I got in the shower, and when I got out discovered that my computer had decided to load windows 8.1, and I’m not sure if that interrupted and/or affected the results or not; I’m uploading all new relative creations.
Besides the length of time, what is detrimental about it?