The batch files that I have scheduled in the Windows 10 Task Scheduler were all turned off this morning. I have previously seen Avast treat such batch files as if they were viruses. One source says Avast’s Do Not Disturb mode may be responsible, but I don’t see any indication in Avast that it is set up to turn off scheduled tasks. Any ideas?
I think this is my first time posting here, so I’ll mention a few hindrances here FWIW:
@ray_woodcock.
From your post I assume you have some flavour of Win10. Can you tell us which version of Win10?
Also can you tell us which version of Avast and whether free or paid version?
I do not myself run batch files from task scheduler. I have done a forum search and cannot see anything problems similar to yours being reported recently. Did you see any error messages indicating it was Avast stopping them?
Thanks for your replies. I did see, within the past week or so, an Avast indication that it was suppressing one of the regularly scheduled batch files. I looked but did not find where I could override that behavior. I didn’t see that message repeated for any of the other batch files. I can’t remember for sure whether it said it was suppressing only that one file, or rather was suppressing all files of that type.
I’m using Win10 Pro 2004 and free Avast 20.10.2442 (build 20.10.5824.623).
Regarding the captchas, I appreciate that they may be appearing only initially. My point was that, however often they appear, they are too difficult to discern. For example, the second character of the one that I am looking at right now is completely unrecognizable. It has once again taken three tries to get a version of the captcha that I can read.