I have scheduled a daily full scan at midnight. It had been working well until recently. However, there is a full scan that I did NOT schedule that usually starts shortly after 11:00 a.m. It has been running for at least a year. Lately, it’s been starting a little earlier, and has hijacked the scheduled one so that they start within about 30 seconds of each other. This means that I now have TWO full scans attempting to run just as I’m sitting down at the computer for the day. I have searched both Quick Scan Scheduling and Full System Scheduling, and absolutely cannot find this rogue morning scan. How can I find and disable it?
hey it should be under scan options in the program.
open up avast interface then go to the scan button. on the bottom of that screen to the right should be a button for scheduled scans. there you should find it.
hope this help you out.
The only one I can find there is the one I actually did schedule, the one that runs at midnight. The one that runs at 11:00 a.m., that I didn’t schedule, isn’t there. Is there a default scan pre-scheduled that you can’t see?
have you looked at the settings in quick scan / full scan / custom scan ?
I’m not in a computer with avast right now, but I’m almost sure that these setting (schedules) are in the avast5.ini file…
Thank you all for your replies.
Pondus, yes, I’ve looked at all 3. The only one I can find is the one that I want to run, at midnight.
Tech, I’m a fairly advanced computer user compared to the general public, but I’m definitely not a techie or programmer. I ran “avast5.ini” through the computer’s search function, and it doesn’t find it. I did find a “settings.ini” file under Avast5, but there’s nothing in there recognizable as a schedule. There are a couple of other ini files in Avast5, but nothing that looks like it would involve scans. Any other places I should look?
As you might guess, I’m both stumped and highly annoyed by this, and it’s been going on now for over a year. (But I’m not so annoyed that I’ve stopped using or recommending Avast 
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Maybe you take a picture of the Rogue scan while it is running and post that here.
Also, check your Scan log in the GUI to see if it is showing up in there.
if no success… i suggest you remove avast with the uninstall tool reboot and install again
that should give you default settings back
I’ve got the same thing happening to me, and none of the fixes suggested here helped. Nothing in the avast interface suggests there is a scan going at all, but win7 resource monitor shows avastsvc.exe going hog wild all over the 3 partitions of my secondary data drive, f:, g:, and h:. It seems to leave my ssd system drive, and my first data drive alone (c: and d:).
The timing seems random, but i haven’t been tracking it yet. i’d rather just fix it outright than start marking crap on a calender. I’ve disabled rootkit scan on startup, made sure the animation of the taskbar icon is active during scan, no spinning ball or whatever during this ghost scan. Nothing shows up on log. Nothing is scheduled period. All real-time shields disabled.
Can anyone suggest a fix besides uninstallation? If it gets uninstalled, its not getting reinstalled.
edit: Apparently I didn’t pay enough attention to the log. Avast was nice enough to modify my windows screensaver settings without telling me(?), with a scan that runs upon screensaver start, and runs until completion regardless of if I unidle the computer and start working again. Disabled. Also, it would be nice to get SOME indicator anywhere that this scan is taking place. something. anything.