Sheduled Scan

[sloany]

Hi,
Ive looked everywhere in the help file, here on the forum, in the settings menu, but alas cant figure out how to set up a scheduled scan.
Can anyone explain to me how to set up Avast 4 home to scan my local drives at a certain time every week? I'm sure i've seen where you can set it up, but, im damned if i can find it now.

[DavidR]

I'm assuming that you are a avast! Home user and scheduling a scan is not available, only in the Pro version. However, I don't believ this is a big deal since the on-access scanners can scan newly created/modified files so a scheduled scan is less importan't.

HOWTO: Scheduled Automatic Scans avast! Home Version!

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.

The Pro version gives a lot more flexibility and the scan would follow the settings and exclusions, etc. of the regular scan.

I prefer to do a manual scan with my regular weekly maintenance tasks.

[sloany]

Thanks David, i must have been mistaken, thought i had seen it somewhere on the home version.

[DavidR]

No problem, welcome to the forums.

You may have seen Schedule boot-time scan in the Menu of the simple user interface, but that is a one off when you next boot.

[alanrf]

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.

That can be adjusted by the user.  It does not scan those files that have been added to the exclusion list.   

[DavidR]

True, they can reduce the number by excluding certain folders or files types, this may reduce the effectiveness/purpose of the scan. Not to mention ashQuick.exe acts differently to the on-demand scans as by default ashquick scans archive files which will extend the scan duration on files that are inert until opened.

[Lisandro]

Not to mention ashQuick.exe acts differently to the on-demand scans as by default ashquick scans archive files which will extend the scan duration on files that are inert until opened.

To get control over on-demand scaning of archive files the user must have the Professional version.