Automatic or Scheduled System Scans?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Does Avast run scheduled or automatic scans of my system? I cannot seem to find a way to schedule scans or events anywhere in the program.
2

Scheduling is only available in Pro version. Its better to use On-Access Scanning then scheduled…

3

If you have Windows 2k/XP you can schedule a boot time scanning…
You can make a schedule into Windows Tasks with the program ashQuick.exe (see avast folder) but you can configure or use parameters for it.
Like RejZor said, it’s a Professional version feature :wink:

4

OK., thanks for the info.,

I’m guessing that this means that I must activate a preboot Windows system scan manually then since a Windows task will only run once Windows is up and operational?

5

I don’t quiet understand what you mean,but but i think this is what you are asking for…

When you schedule Boot-Time scan you have to restart machine to perform it. After it scans all files(disks) the system will automatically boot to Windows. Boot-Time Scan is run only once after scheduling it,so if you wan’t to use it again after scanning with it you have to schedule it again.

6

There is always the taskschedular in windows which you can use to schedule a scan.

7 
Hello;

Actually what I am trying to do is to schedule a weekly FULL pre-boot scan of my system, just like Norton AV can do, but I am understanding that this is not possible with the free version. Correct?
By using Windows Task Scheduler I do not think that I can program scan events such as the pre-boot full system scan, unless I am missing something.
Thanks;

Peace~ &

Be Well!

  Scott C,
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Indeed, scheduling a boot-scan once a week (or something like that) is not possible (not even in the Pro version). However, if you’re familiar with registry, you may be able to do it manually.

  1. Schedule the boot-time scan, just as you want it.
  2. Open regedit and export the value BootExecute from the key
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager
    (make sure it’s really just the BootExecute value, not the whole Session Manager - you may have to edit the resulting .reg file). Save the file e.g. as bootscan.reg.
  3. Using Windows scheduler, schedule the command
    regedit.exe /s (some path maybe)\bootscan.reg

That could do the trick :wink: