It is recommended to check this box only if you intend to carry out a limited scan and only if you really want all clean files to be reported as well as any problematic files. If all local drives are scanned, checking this box could produce a very long report.

OK items – these are files that were scanned where nothing suspicious was detected.

Soft errors – these are less serious than hard errors and usually concern files that could not be scanned, for example, because they were open and being used by another application.

Hard errors – these arise when the program detects something that would not normally be expected and generally require further investigation.

Infected items – files that potentially contain a virus or other malware infection.

If you want to keep the previous scan results, select “Append” and the results of the new scan will be added to the end of the previous report.įinally, you can specify what will be reported:

A new report will then be created after each scan and will replace any previous report.

If you want to create a new report after each scan, and you don’t want to keep a record of previous scan results, select “overwrite”. You can specify whether you want the report to be created as a plain text file, or in XML format. On this page you can create a report of the scan results.

Avast boot scan report