Avast Scan Stuck At 14
If you try avast, run the boot time scan. That often finds things in a base cpu language mode that prevents viruses from tampering with the anti-virus removal process. Once downloaded you can run avast boot time scan in normal mode. It will automatically restart your computer. You will see a black background and white font. Chiron, it looks clear that the problem is NOT related to false positives. My scan (and it's a manual full scan) hangs at 99% on a readme.txt from sqliteodbc.exe downloaded from Microsoft (downloaded nearly 1 year ago and validated with AVAST), so IMHO it's a waste of time looking in that direction. Best option is to just wait it out, and let it do what it has to do. It'll just take a while, especially if you have a large HDD. The disk check didn't really fix the file for me (turned out to be a windows 8 problem), but the main thing was it just needed to be left.
Hello,I am having a few problems with my system (currently using Windows 7 Home Premium). Here followes a not-so short description of my problem:
A few days ago, I encountered a somewhat strange problem. While browsing (using Firefox), the computer suddenly froze. I assumed it was caused by an unresponsive script in Firefox , which happen all the time owing to the large number of tabs I run simultaneously, which usually stop in a matter of seconds (sometimes minutes). I did, however, get impatient, and shut down the computer by pressing the on/off button. When I restarted, it updated the registry (nothing strange there, I presume it was the Windows updates that it was installing). However, when I logged on, the Avast! antivirus software I was using was disabled (which caused me to shut down the internet connection immediately so that further (possible) infection could be avoided), and when I tried to restart the Avast! service, it gave me the following message: 'Unable to start the File System Shield! Shield unreachable.' I tried scanning as well, which resulted in this message: 'File System Shield provider not found.' Messing around with avast! did, however, slow down the computer tremendously, and the CPU usage was subsequently stuck at a 100%, and I was hardly able to use the computer. Therefore, I shut it off again. When I started it this time, I could not log on: logging on simply resulted in a black screen. I found this highly disturbing, so I shut it off again and restarted in safe mode with no internet, where I tried to scan with MBAM. However, the scan took extremely long, after about five hours I'd had enough, as it seemed to be stuck at 64%. So I shut it off without completing the scan. The next day, I booted in safe mode once again, this time with internet connection, where I disposed of the obviously flawed avast!. I then downloaded Norton and scanned the computer again, but to no avail. No virusses or anything were found (and the computer seemed to be running quite smoothly again). I also tried scanning with various other products, such as the 'BitDefender Quickscan' and the 'Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool'. I also ran a Hijackthis scan, but I was unable to interpret the results (as far as I could tell, there was nothing out of the ordinary running on my PC, but my knowledge of these matters is rather limited). So, I still don't know what caused this problem, and if it did indeed have anything to with malware at all. Is there any way to find out if something bad is lying dormant somewhere on my PC (I'm thinking that is entirely possible that a virus could have messed with the installation of Norton, making it corrupt and unable to recognize that particular virus). I'd be very grateful for some help on this matter!
- Pherix
Oblivion light armor master. Edited by Pherix, 30 January 2012 - 11:57 AM.
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About a month ago Avast lit up on my laptop detecting about four to eight trojans at a time, so after deleting the trojans I decided to run a boot-time scan. However, the scans always get stuck at 3%, usually stopping at some random file in some appdata folder. I've tried several times to run the scan, once leaving the computer alone for six hours, but the scan always stops at one file (it is never the same one) at around 3% in the process. The computer does not freeze or become unresponsive though, if I press ESC it will simply stop the scan and go to Windows.
Avast Smart Scan Stuck At 14%
I ran all the steps in the Malware Removal Guide and then I tried a boot-time scan again but no dice, it still stops at 3%.
Avast Scan Stuck At 14 Years
Anyone have an idea what this could be?