If I schedule a scan in Avast, and for example my PC is switched off and I miss the scan, will Avast run that missed scan or will I need to run it manually or wait for the next schedule to come around again for it to start?
I am running Windows 8 as my OS - I don’t know if there is anything that can be done in the OS Task Scheduler to do this if Avast doesn’t offer this feature??
I believe it will be at the next scheduled day/time.
In all honesty missing a scheduled scan isn’t a big deal.
With a resident on-access antivirus like avast, the need for frequent on-demand scans is much depreciated. For the most part the on-demand scan is going to be scanning files that would be otherwise be dormant or inert. If they were active files then the on-access file system shield would be scanning them before being created, modified, opened or executed.
I have avast set to do a scheduled weekly Quick scan, set at a time and day that I know the computer will be on. If for some reason my system wasn’t on, no big deal I will catch up on the next scheduled scan.