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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: robinb on July 15, 2008, 06:54:27 PM
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AVG 8.0 free lets you set up a schedule to do automatic scans.
After downloading and installing AVAST free I do not see this anywhere.
If AVAST doesn't have this- how does it do a scan?
Does it do a daily scan automatically every day at a specific time or random
If it does a scan every day can you set it (and where is this) at a specific time?
thanks
robin
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well, avast can be noticed by the blue A-ball in the system tray and probably an vrdb-symbol...
avast! has a great on-access scanner which scans your internet traffic and scans the files you open, so it protects you from viruses all the time!
i think that sheduled scans are only possible with the pro version, but I'm not really versed with that... :-\
yours
onlysomeone
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scheduled scans are only available through pro version but seeing as its a resident scanner I find little use for scheduled scans as I run one as part of my monthly maintenance anyway but thats me
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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
Check this work around out - HOWTO: Scheduled Automatic Scans avast! Home Version! (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=3796.0)
The major disadvantage with the task scheduler trick of using ashquick.exe is, it will scan every file of the hdd, partition, folder or file that you set it to scan; even those files not considered a potential threat, this can take a long time. It is possible to add certain folders to the exclusions list for say your media files, etc. Care should be taken with the paths you want to exclude as this could leave you vulnerable if that folder got infected as it wouldn't be scanned by the on-demand scanner as you have excluded it. However, should you access any infected file in a Folder in the Program Settings, Exclusions, the on-access scanner (Standard Shield) should detect it provided you haven't put the exclusions in there.
The Pro version gives a lot more flexibility and the scan would follow the settings and exclusions, etc. of the regular scan.
With the different levels of protection (Web Shield, Internet Mail, P2P and Instant Messaging) and the fall back of the Standard Shield, I find the need for daily scheduled scans lessened. I prefer to do a manual scan with my regular weekly maintenance tasks.