Creating scan reports in Avast Antivirus

Avast Antivirus allows you to specify if you want to produce a report automatically at the end of each scan (Core Shields, Virus Scans, or Custom Scans). When troubleshooting issues with Avast Support, you may be requested to provide this report file. Follow the steps in this article to enable the generation of a scan report, run a scan, and locate the scan report file on your PC.

Generate a scan report

Run a scan

After enabling the Generate report file option, run the scan to generate a report file:

For instructions to run Smart scan, refer to the following article:

• Running Smart Scan in Avast Antivirus

For instructions to run Full Virus Scan, Targeted Scan, Boot-Time Scan, and Custom scans go to Protection ▸ Virus Scans and click the relevant tile. For detailed instructions, refer to the following article:

• Scanning your PC for viruses with Avast Antivirus

Locate a report file

After the scan is complete, locate the report file in the following location:

• C:\ProgramData\AVAST Software\Avast\report