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pete.goss

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Scheduled Scan Failure
« on: May 10, 2014, 09:56:07 PM »
Hello,
My scheduled scans (Avast free) failed to run today on two separate PCs (one Win7 and the other Vista).  Last week’s scans ran without incident. I rebooted and tried again, but the selected time pasted without result.  Nothing has changed in my configuration on either system since last week.
Is anyone else experiencing this problem?
Thanks…
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Offline Para-Noid

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Re: Scheduled Scan Failure
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2014, 11:20:16 PM »
Try a repair...Control Panel>Uninstall a Program>double click "avast">click "repair">reboot.
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Re: Scheduled Scan Failure
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2014, 11:22:34 PM »
May sound as a silly question?

Are you sure the PC wasn't in sleep mode/battery mode (laptop)?

If so, did you enable avast! to wake up the PC to perform scan/perform scan while on battery power?
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pete.goss

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Re: Scheduled Scan Failure
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2014, 12:47:52 AM »
Thanks for the replies. The problem is now fixed. It appears that something changed by firewall permissions on both machines. Once I fixed that, all worked well as I expected. I'm looking at what might have caused the exact same change on both machines.
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