I don’t know if it’s intended or not, but clicking on the Scan button on the AvastUI home page automatically starts the default scan (which is the Quick Scan after update). This is on both machines in my signature below. Since I have a password set, I have to enter it in order to even stop the scan. I don’t know if all this is by design or not, but it doesn’t seem intuitive at all.
To avoid this unwanted (at the time) scan, I don’t click on it. Clicking on the Security Tab | Antivirus gets me to the list of scans, which I thought I was going before.
On my WinXP Pro machine, I added long ago a QuickMemoryScan and have set it as the default scan. It doesn’t take long to complete and shouldn’t bother other users on that machine.
I would have thought that I would be given the option to select which scan I wanted at the time. It automatically starting is not the way it worked in Avast 7, and is a surprise. We didn’t sit in on the Avast development committee meetings, after all. : If it’s by design, so be it. It’s just something else users have to adjust to. ???
It initiates the default scan, now obviously there has to be one of the scans set as the default (on installation) to start with, or the scan button wouldn’t do anything. People would I believe be more confused than it running a scan.
It is I feel is only counter intuitive because you have been used to avast 7, had you not had that experience, by clicking the big Scan button, you would expect a scan of sorts to start.
So use the Security section, Antivirus to select your default scan, if you don’t want it to the the Quick scan and then the scan button will start that scan.
Sorry but saying that it wasn’t in v7 is a bit strange because there were no action buttons like this in v7 in the first place, right?
I mean, we felt that having the Scan button actually initiate a scan was a pretty natural thing and not confusing at all.
But of course, it’s a matter of personal taste and you may not agree.
It’s not so much that I totally disagree with the Avast team’s thinking, but that it has always been a two step operation to initiate any manual scan, even back to V4.x. FWIW, I’m not alone is being initially confused by this. Based on previous experience with Avast, I wondered if there was a glitch in my upgraded installation. Apparently, I’m not alone.
At least, perhaps this thread will make more users aware that this is how the Scan button on the Home page is supposed to work. Since it is a deliberate design choice, it’s easier to accept and move on. One thing that I would like to see changed about this is the ability to stop the scan without the stop being protected by the password I entered for Avast. Stopping the scan doesn’t touch the settings, which is why I entered the password in the first place.
