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steve1227

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Uninterrupted long scans
« on: January 12, 2009, 04:12:15 PM »
Hi folks, I ran a full scan of my drives last night (about 1.5 TB total) only to discover this morning that it stopped at 5% complete to prompt me how to handle a virus it discovered on some download from months ago (that I never used).

Is there any way to configure Avast to queue up all the viruses/issues that it encounters during a scan so the entire scan can run to completion (I.e. overnight) and then I can deal with each of the issues the next day?

As it stands, now I can either interrupt the scan and run another one tonight or let this one run to completion.

I'm at 37% complete (2.6 million files so far)

Is there a better way to configure it?

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Re: Uninterrupted long scans
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2009, 05:10:37 PM »
These automated options are only available in the Pro version. This is a limitation of the Home (free) version that it has interactive input requirement, there have to be differences in the Home/Pro version and this is one of them, the programmers have to eat ;D

In the Home version you can check the option "Don't show this window again" when the first virus warning appears, select the "No action" button. This way, no action will be taken and you will given the results at the end of the scan (and you can perform actions from there). Over time this will become less of an issue, as the resident, on-access scanners are designed to intercept infection before it gets into your system.

- There was one suggestion to place something like the eicar virus test file at the start of the first drive to be scanned in a file like ~a-eicar.com that should soon be detected and you can do the option "Don't show this window again" when the first virus warning appears, select the "No action" button. So you should have a list of files waiting your action.
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Re: Uninterrupted long scans
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2009, 06:29:48 PM »
Other option is running a boot time scanning and configuring what to do with infected files on archive and system files...
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