I installed Avast 4.8 free edition yesterday. I read that this home version does not have a scheduler and has to be run manually. Soon after downloading, it began to run and is still running 22 hours later. I have used the terminate link and it continues to run.
I sent an e-mail about it and received an answer asking me for information I don’t know how to get and so I sent it back asking for that.
In the meantime, I thought someone might have a solution.