RE: Scheduling Automatic Scans with Free Version (cont'd)

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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a break-off of this thread http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=3796.0

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=34c85b32a45c32bf5efc7b7dd84bd7e1&topic=3796.75
That was asked to move because of specific WinXP settings questions. I found the answer to the password dilemma in XP:

There is a box “Run only if Logged On” - put a check in that box, it won’t ask for more passwords.

The initial thread dealt with using Control Panel>Scheduled Tasks to schedule an AVAST! scan, since the free version does not come armed with that capability.

You use the Browse box and navigate to your Avast software and find ashQuick.exe. After the quotation marks, enter in the drives you want to be scanned, including the colon.

My entry is below~

“D:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashQuick.exe” C: D: E:

obviously there is more information in the thread referenced above.

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This is the type of weekly scheduled scan this long time avast user has employed for years with great satisfaction.

Ignore all naysayers for users of the Home version … it just works.

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Thank you ginamarina for the post above. We have set this up and it does work fine. We have it to scan in the early hours of Saturday morning once a week but have one question. If during the scan a virus is detected, what happens? Will it stop the scan at that point, add the virus to the chest and report at the end of the scan or what? At the end of the scan where there is no virus found it just finishes.