• Avast Boot Scan Decompression Bomb

Hi, I may be (probably) doing something wrong here. I've installed the 4.8 Professional on trial on Windows 7 running on BootCamp on a MacBook Pro. I started out trying a boot time scan, but gave up after only getting to 11% after two hours. Trying a standard scan from within Windows is more like how it should be, 80% in a few minutes. My BootCamp drive is 32Gb, probably no more than 10 Gb used. No other anti virus or protection apps installed. More or less a 'virgin' Windows 7 system.

Could it be trying to scan my Mac partition too? And maybe getting hung up on that? Any thoughts anyone? Hi, I may be (probably) doing something wrong here. I've installed the 4.8 Professional on trial on Windows 7 running on BootCamp on a MacBook Pro. I started out trying a boot time scan, but gave up after only getting to 11% after two hours.

Avast Boot Scan Decompression Bomb

Trying a standard scan from within Windows is more like how it should be, 80% in a few minutes. My BootCamp drive is 32Gb, probably no more than 10 Gb used. No other anti virus or protection apps installed.

More or less a 'virgin' Windows 7 system. Could it be trying to scan my Mac partition too?

And maybe getting hung up on that? Any thoughts anyone?

Boot-time scan allows Avast to detect and remove hard to detect viruses before the operating system starts up. It is not recommended to change default settings for boot-time scan. Instead you can Create a custom scan in the bottom right corner of the Scan screen. Nov 24, 2014 - Mac OS or Google Android users can install free versions of Avast!, Avira. The Rescue Disk and the Boot-time Scan options are the most.

Julea, I don't use Avast but I found the following at another site and it may be of help to you. All you'd have to do is reverse the procedure to eliminate the boot scan.' I use Avast for antivirus and you can schedule a 'boot time scan' by right clicking the icon, choosing 'Start Avast Antivirus', and let it do its memory scan. Once it brings you to the interface, click the little up arrow on the left hand side and choose 'schedule a boot time scan'.'

'Reboot your PC, and Avast will do an offline scan for you that should catch everything. Make sure your definitions are up to do before scheduling. Depending on the speed of your computer and the number of files you have, this scan will take some time. Expect to be without the computer for a while'.Tufenuf. Well, this morning when I booted it, it did not do the scan. Since I'm new to Avast, I need to find a forum where I can read what others say or do, and where I can ask questions.

It's quite different than AVG which I used for years!Wonder if I need to leave ALL default settings or change any specific. I can't tell if it's scanning incoming mail, even though I found a setting that is checked for that. Everynow and then I see the little globe in navigation area whirl around, but don't know what it's really doing.

What is it doing (LOL)?I did find someplace where it scanned my incoming cnet email - don't understand what I really saw because it had the number 3, but only had the subject of 1 of them - there were only 2 (not 3) emails from cnet - so that confused me. Too, that was for our main account and I wonder if it scann my other 80 emails from my 2 gmail accounts I have set up in Outlook Express.It's just a matter of getting used to something new I know, but I need to feel more comfortable with what it's really doing.Thanks for your response.Julea. At Avast?If so, it was replied to 47min after you posted. (Some of these helpers must stay up all night!)I know what it's like trying to get your head around a new installed program. I found my third AV (AVG, actually) difficult to work out at first. Basically, it works 'out of the box', nothing needs to be changed (except for the database to be updated) as soon as it's installed. Anything opened via gmail, by that I mean an attachment, is scanned on opening.

It behaves like any download from a web page in that regard.Once you've installed an AV (or AS, or similar) it's a good idea to practice navigating the menus, without changing anything, just to see what does what. The help file is also good.FWIW I've always found the Avast forum one of the best. Of AVG suits you. Some have described it as 'bloated', containing a linkscanner (sort of like siteadvisor) and antispyware, totalling a lot more memory use than the 7.5 AV. However, most reasonably modern computers should cope with that without even raising the pulse.Grisoft used to provide a free AV, and AS, and Antirootkit available for separate download. Those days are gone.

I reckon they're heading the same way as Symantec, when it took over Norton.That said, you have to be happy and confident with what you use. That's the bottom line.

Both AV's perform very respectably in independent (non-sponsored) tests/reviews.Avast have an uninstall tool available, should you get weird conflictions, for info. I've never had any problems with their standard uninstaller, though.

To gain confidence in a different application.I've found the Avast forum particularly helpful in that regard. More tips than a needle factory.Once you learn how to navigate the menus, and the different ways to access the (which seems a bit confusing at first) you'll probably grow to like it.Re the plugin. If it is in fact a false positive, might pay to report it in the Avast forum.(email to 'virus@avast.com', zip, password protect it, include the name of the password in the message, mention the FP thing.)Chances are fair that someone else already had the problem. You could, if in doubt, upload it to Virustotal for independent online scans (about 3 min.)If it is definitely a FP, you can set Avast to exclude it from scanning:Standard Shield(left click the tray icon then select), Customize, Advanced, Add andProgram Settings(right click the tray icon), Exclusions. Julea.You wrote, 'I did find someplace where it scanned my incoming cnet email - don't understand what I really saw because it had the number 3, but only had the subject of 1 of them - there were only 2 (not 3) emails from cnet - so that confused me.

Too, that was for our main account and I wonder if it scann my other 80 emails from my 2 gmail accounts I have set up in Outlook Express'I have NO idea what you meant when you wrote, 'but it only had the subject of 1 of them'. On a VERY outside chance, you meant the subject of any CNET's email notifications were blank, have a look at. Again, only a shot in the dark.Regarding email scanning. This may cause some controversey (and probably will) but you might want to take a look at this article by Tom Koch. (Only a part of it, but you can read it in it's entirety at the link below)'Viral Irony: The Most Common Cause of Corruption' When encountering the symptoms of DBX corruption, many people immediately fear that their computer is infected with a virus. As surprising and ironic as it may seem though, the most common cause of DBX corruption is not a virus, but rather anti-virus programs that are configured to scan incoming or outgoing e-mail.

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Even the most well-known anti-virus programs have exhibited this problem from time to time. To lessen the risk of such corruption you should disable the e-mail scanning module in your anti-virus program. This is usually easy to do by looking at the user-configurable options in the anti-virus program.

It is not at all necessary to scan e-mail for viruses to protect your computer.Now before you dismiss me as mad, let me explain why e-mail scanning is unnecessary. Almost every anti-virus program for Windows installs by default a system scan that runs in the background every time Windows starts. This scan is necessary to protect your computer. If you receive a virus in an e-mail attachment, the virus cannot do anything at all until you actually open the attachment. At that time Outlook Express extracts the attachment from.'

More here if the above makes any sense to you:' Disabling avast!' S antivirus and e-mail scanning protection'Something else which might help with your new venture:' How to Install, Configure, and Use Avast Antivirus'(Maybe not as current as it should be, but it might help you find information about (I think )Best of luck.Carol.