Quick Heal Boot Time Scan

If you cannot boot into your Operating System or you think your system is totally infected with some sort of malware and your antivirus isn’t able to wipe these intruders, then before trying to reinstall the Operating System and losing most of your precious data (in case of unbootable system), you should give any one of the below mentioned antivirus software that let you scan at the boot time.

Quick Heal Internet Security protects your laptops and desktops and provides protection against all kinds of Internet or network-based threats. Upon installation, it acts as a shield against viruses, worms, trojans, spywares and other malicious threats. It also provides security against new and unknown threats with Quick Heal’s renowned DNAScan® Technology. JavaScript is disabled. OS 8.1 Pro 32-bit Computer type PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Asus Motherboard CPU Quick heal is a type of DNA scan on a computer file. To stop boot-time scan on every boot in QuickHeal. I tried everything in the quick heal settings but there is no option of disabling this boot up scan.

Boot Time Scan – Ability to enable Boot Time Scanning to scan and clear all drives at boot time before Windows is fully loaded. This advanced feature will help you identify and destroy cunning rootkits, spyware, special-purpose Trojans, and loggers. December 17, 2013. Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. They say all good things must come to an end. Quick Heal 2013 series has.

BitDefender Rescue CD


BitDefender is capable of scanning and disinfecting your system at boot time. This is another one of those who states to used only when your system in not booting or is almost inoperable.

Tools included inside are a rootkit scanner, network-vulnerability scanner, partition manager, file recovery tools, wireless network monitor, network diagnostics, and Mozilla’s Firefox browser. When you boot the CD, the software tries to download anti-malware definition updates if the system has an active Internet connection.

Virus Detection is Good and gives you option to choose what to do after threats have been detected.

You can download the ISO from here and if you’re looking for a guide to create bootable rescue cd or usb check out this link.

Kaspersky Rescue Disk

Kaspersky Rescue disk is specially made to scan, disinfect, and restore infected operating system. The official website of Kaspersky states that this software should only be used when the operating system becomes unbootable. Kaspersky doesn’t need much introduction when it comes to defending systems against intrusions. The rescue disk is capable of removing any kind of intrusions and makes your system bootable again.

Graphical User Interface is quite user friendly but sometimes, cleaning enters infinite loop mode and then only option is to unplug power.

You can download the ISO from here and if you’re thinking on how to create a bootable USB drive then you can check out this link.

Quick Heal Boot Time Scan Stuck

Quick Heal Antivirus

This is the only antivirus which comes with an inbuilt boot scanning option. Actually this is one of the things every antivirus should come with. To perform a boot time scan through Quick Heal, you have to follow these steps:

  • Update Quick Heal to the latest virus definitions
  • Disconnect your computer from all the networks
  • Open Quick Heal – Click on Scan – Click on Boot time Scan – Click on Yes to set the Boot Time Scanner – Click on Yes to restart your computer

Quick Heal is faster in scanning compared to above solutions while I doubt about offering complete threat deletion.

If you don’t want to believe in ratings and comparisons provided in this article or by anyone, you should create a combination of all these top Antivirus Rescue disks. Shardana Antivirus Rescue Disk Utility can help you in creating a multiboot disk.

Shardana Antivirus Rescue Disk Utility [ SARDU ]

This is one of those applications that everyone should give a try. This is just a utility that lets you create bootable disk/usb from the available antivirus rescue disks and system tools. The application does not come up with any of the rescue disk or system tools.

Here is the list of supported antivirus rescue CDs and other tools:

Antivirus: Avira Antivir Rescue System, Bitdefender, Dr. Web Live CD, F-Secure, GData, Kaspersky Kav Rescue CD, Panda Safe CD and VBA Rescue

Utility: Floppy win98SE, Clonezilla, Gparted, NT password, Parted Magic, System Rescue CD, Ultimate Boot CD

Play lost lands games. Linux: Austrumi, Damn Small Linux, NimbleX, Puppy Linux, Slax

PE: LiveXP, MegalabCD, WindowsPE, UBCD4Win, VistaPE

It offers either to create an ISO image or make a bootable usb drive by combining two or three tools and rescue CDs together.

You can download Shardana Antivirus Rescue Disk Utility from here.

Scan Options provides you with various options of scanning your system based on your requirements. You can initiate scanning of your entire system, drives, network drives, USB drives, folders or files, certain locations and drives, memory scan, and boot time scan. Although the default settings for manual scan are usually adequate, you can adjust the options for manual scan as you prefer.

Quick Scan

This feature completes the scanning of your system on faster pace. With Quick Scan, only the predefined locations that can be vulnerable to malicious attacks are scanned.

To initiate a quick scan, follow these steps:

  1. Open Quick Healantivirus.
  2. On the left pane, click Status and then select ScanOptions >Quick Scan.

    The scan starts. On completion of the scan, you can view the scan report under Reports.

Full System Scan

This feature helps you initiate a complete scan of all boot records, drives, folders, files, and vulnerabilities on your computer (excluding mapped network drives).

Full System Scan is advisable soon after first installation. Our Full System Scan is smart to run a complete scan for the first time. Next time, it scans only new files or those files that have been changed. This differential scanning optimizes scanning time.

To initiate a full system scan, follow these steps:

  1. Open Quick Healantivirus.
  2. On the left pane, click Status and then select ScanOptions > Full System Scan.

    The scan starts. On completion of the scan, you can view the scan report under Reports.

Custom Scan

Quick Heal Boot Time Scan

This feature helps you scan specific drives and folders on your system. This is helpful when you want to scan only certain items and not the entire system.

To scan specific folders, follow these steps:

  1. Open Quick Healantivirus.
  2. On the left pane, click Status and then select ScanOptions > Custom Scan.
  3. On the Custom Scan screen, a list of items is displayed in the Scan Item list if you have added any items to scan. If you have not added any item before or you want to scan some new items, click Add to add the scan items.
    • On the Browse for Folder list, select the folders that you want to scan.

      You can add multiple folders for scanning. All the subfolders in the selected folder will also be scanned. You can exclude subfolder from scanning if required. To exclude the subfolder, select the Exclude Subfolder option and then click OK.

  4. Select an item from the Scan Item list and then click Start Scan.

    The scan begins. Upon completion of the scanning, you can view the scan report in the Reports menu.

Memory Scan

This feature scans memory of your computer system.

To perform a memory scan, follow these steps:

  1. Open Quick Heal antivirus.
  2. On the left pane, click Status and then select ScanOptions > Memory Scan.

    The scan starts. On completion of the scan, you can view the scan report under Reports.

The following fields are displayed during a scan.

FieldsDescription
Files scannedDisplays the total number of files scanned.
Archive/PackedDisplays the number of archive or packed files scanned.
Threats detectedDisplays the number of threats detected.
DNAScan warningsDisplays the number of files detected by DNAScan.
Boot/Partition virusesDisplays the number of Boot/Partition viruses.
Files repairedDisplays the number of malicious files that have been repaired.
Files quarantinedDisplays the number of malicious files that have been quarantined.
Files deletedDisplays the number of malicious files that have been deleted.
Scanning statusDisplays the status of the scan being performed.

Boot Time Scan

This feature helps to clean even highly infected systems. Some viruses tend to be active if the system is running and they cannot be cleaned. However, using Boot Time Scan you can clean such viruses. This scan will be performed on next boot using Windows NT Boot Shell.

How To Disable Quick Heal Boot Time Scan

To set Boot Time Scan, follow these steps:

  1. Open Quick Healantivirus.
  2. On the left pane, click Status and then select ScanOptions > Boot Time Scan.

    Boot Time Scan has the following options:

    • Quick Scan: Scans only system pre-defined locations that are at high risk to viruses.
    • Full System Scan: Scans the entire system. This may be time consuming.
  3. Click Yes.
  4. To restart the system for scanning immediately, click Yes. To scan the system later, click No.

​ Note: In case Boot Time Scan takes time or it has been initiated by mistake, you can stop it by pressing the ESC key.

Vulnerability Scan

Vulnerabilities are the flaws present in the operating system settings and applications that can be misused by hackers. If you identify these vulnerabilities in time, you can fix or patch them to make your system secure.

Vulnerability Scan in the new version of Quick Heal antivirus brings to you a comprehensive preventive detection method. It identifies vulnerabilities in the operating system settings and applications so that you can fix or patch the vulnerabilities before your system is compromised.

To run Vulnerability Scan, follow these steps:

  1. Open Quick Healantivirus.
  2. On the left pane, click Status and then select ScanOptions >Vulnerability Scan.

    Vulnerability Scan checks for vulnerabilities of the following types:

    Vulnerable System Settings: Detects vulnerable operating system settings that could lead to security threats.

    Vulnerabilities found in Applications: Detects vulnerabilities present in the applications that are installed on your computer.

    When the scan is complete, a summary of the scan is displayed. If you want to see the detailed report on the detected vulnerabilities, click a category from Vulnerable System Settings and Vulnerabilities found in Applications.

    When scan is complete, a report on vulnerabilities is displayed with following details.

Report typesDescription
Vulnerable System SettingsDisplays detected vulnerabilities in the operating system settings. To see the report in detail, click Vulnerable System Settings on the Vulnerability Scan screen. All the vulnerabilities detected in the system settings are listed along with their fixes. You can apply fixes to the vulnerabilities by clicking Fix it under Action.
Vulnerabilities found in ApplicationsDisplays detected vulnerabilities in the applications installed on your computer. To see the report in detail, click Vulnerabilities found in Applications on the Vulnerability Scan screen. All the vulnerabilities are listed along with their links to the patches. To apply the patches, click Yes under Patch Available. You will be redirected to the relevant websites from where you can download the patches and apply them. If no patch is available, you may consider upgrading the application or contact the support of the application vendor.

Free Boot Time Scan

Mobile Scan

With PC2Mobile Scan, you can scan a wide range of Android, iOS, and Windows mobile phones. Before scanning your mobiles, see the following conditions.

  • Mobile Scan feature is supported on Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10 operating systems.
    (Note: Mobile Scan is not supported on Windows XP for iOS devices.)
  • For Windows Mobile based devices (Windows Mobile version 3.0 and earlier to version 7.0), you should have Microsoft Active Sync 4.5 or later for Windows XP (32-bit); and Windows Mobile Device Center for Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10 operating system.
  • Install PCSuite and the device driver on your computer. Once your device gets connected to PCSuite, exit from PCSuite.
  • For scanning Android devices, ensure that the device is connected via USB cable, and USB debugging and Stay awake options must be enabled.
  • For iPhone (Mac) devices, iTunes must be installed on your system.

Quick Heal Boot Time Scanner

Scanning mobiles through PC2Mobile Scan

With PC2Mobile Scan, you can scan mobiles in the following way:

Boot Time Scan Windows 10

  1. Open Quick Heal antivirus.
  2. On the left pane, click Status and then select ScanOptions >Mobile Scan.
  3. Connect a mobile phone to your PC using USB cable.
  4. Click the Search Mobile button.
  5. Click the StartSearch button.

    A search for the model of the connected mobile phone is carried out.

  6. Select the mobile from the list. Click Start Scan.

    Upon completion of the scanning, you can view the scan report in the Reports menu.