What I would like to is have Avast run through a batch file iand then place that batch file in windows task manager for automatic nightly updating/scanning. Is it possible with the home edition?? If not I assume it is with professional but do you have to pay for yearly updates with the professional?? I am trying to avoid that cost which is why I am testing this program. I do not mind purchasing software but I do mind paying constantly for something I already purchased.
Read [url=http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=3796]HERE[/url] how to schedule a scan with the Home version. The Pro version has an option to shedule build in.
do you have to pay for yearly updates with the professional?
For prices/purchase options start [url=http://www.avast.com/eng/buy_avast_4_professi.html]HERE[/url]
The major disadvantage with the task scheduler trick of using ashquick.exe is, it will scan every file of the hdd, partition, folder or file that you set it to scan; even those files not considered a potential threat, this can a long time.
The Pro version gives a lot more flexibility and the scan would follow the settings and exclusions, etc. of the regular scan.
That looks fine, provided of course you aren’t an early riser as I think you are in for a couple of hours at least (possibly more) if you have a large HDD and lots of files.
The other stuff happens fairly quickly as I do it once a night and have been for a long time. Combined with the fact that I only use a 40GB HDD because I really don’t store that much. It’s usually done all that in about an hour at the most… I just ran it in under 30 minutes actually, diskkeeper pro seems to have integrated itself into my O/S and runs as the command line defragger which is nice.
Here’s the site where I obtained the Batch File I am using if anyone wants it, just download and modify…
