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Title: No scan button
Post by: REDACTED on April 18, 2015, 11:04:22 AM

I have installed Avast Mac Security. I would like starting Avast at a certain time and certain day, is it possible? and How?

Title: Re: No scan button
Post by: krahulik on April 20, 2015, 09:56:39 AM

Hello,
  there is no scheduled scan functionality in the Avast at this moment, since the realtime protection should provide sufficient protection. However, if you would like to scan a particular folder periodically, you can setup a task in an external tool (iCal, launchd) that launches Avast (i.e. open -a /Applications/Avast.app /tmp).

Best Regards,
  Martin

Title: Re: No scan button
Post by: REDACTED on April 22, 2015, 03:16:08 PM

Quote from: krahulik on April 20, 2015, 09:56:39 AM

Hello,
  there is no scheduled scan functionality in the Avast at this moment, since the realtime protection should provide sufficient protection. However, if you would like to scan a particular folder periodically, you can setup a task in an external tool (iCal, launchd) that launches Avast (i.e. open -a /Applications/Avast.app /tmp).

I tried this with launchd and it's working fine. The problem is to set up the launchd agent. (I used the 'Lingon' application, but it's not free.)

Here's an example plist file to set up a schedule for 13:00 each day of the Download directory.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>Avast scan</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>open</string>
<string>-a</string>
<string>/Applications/Avast.app/Contents/MacOS/Avast</string>
<string>/Users/kenta/Downloads</string>
</array>
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<dict>
<key>Hour</key>
<integer>13</integer>
<key>Minute</key>
<integer>00</integer>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>

More info here: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man5/launchd.plist.5.html
or by googling.