I can’t provide specific version information here because I am on a different computer from the one protected by Avast free, but I think readers here will be able to determine what I’m talking about.
I update my Avast free antivirus software in a fairly timely manner when prompted to do so.
This week, the latest update request was “pushed” to me, I updated, restarted, and away I went.
But then this morning, I noticed two things I didn’t like. One was that my scheduled overnight scan did not happen. The other was that scheduling scans became much more difficult.
Regarding the running of a scan, I’ve been using Avast free for roughly 10 years, and through each version change, my settings, including the scan schedules, have always been preserved. The schedule has been a “quick scan” (I think that’s the terminology) for Wednesday through Monday mornings at 12:15 AM, and a “full system scan” (again, not sure of the terminology) that runs Tuesday morning at 12:15 AM. If these scans run while I’m on the computer, the “quick” one takes about 15 minutes and the “full” one takes about an hour, if that’s any help.
Today I noticed an empty scan log. No scan had run. So my scan schedule, that I’ve not tinkered with in the four years I’ve had my current computer, had been eliminated as part of the software update (and again, I’m reasonably IT savvy, and have updated Avast and a lot of programs many times over the years, so I know what I’m doing).
In trying to reschedule the scans, I could not find a way to define different scans (“quick” and “full system” as has been the case for years).
So with the above as background, my questions are:
[ol]- Where did my scan schedule go?
- Why was it eliminated, when many prior Avast updates have retained it?
- How do I define and schedule different “quick” and “full” scans, like I had before?[/ol]
