I am not sure if this has been posted, but I am having trouble finding the scheduled scan function. All the past AVs I have used have these... does Avast not?
Chris
If you have the Home version, I'm not surprised you couldn't find anything it isn't their. You can use the workaround XMAS posted, but with the various resident providers Web Shield, Internet Mail, P2P Shield, Instant Messaging, etc. all working to detect incoming viruses and Standard Shield as a fall back line of defence, the need for on-demand scans is lessened.
I do a weekly on-demand scan of Local Drives, Standard sensitivity and without archives, this doesn't take long so personally I don't see the need to schedule scans in this way.
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