Have used Avast Free Antivirus for years. Starting about a week ago I have the problem described in the header.
When I right click a file and then left click “Scan XXX”, nothing happens. Have tried dozens of times.
I have to initialize the GUI, Protections/Scans/Targeted Scans.
And if it’s a single file not in a folder which I want to scan, I have to create a New Folder and insert the file so your “Browse” function will find the file I want to have scanned.
Until now - it’s doing it again.
I imagine that, as before, when I restart it will work again.
But it’s not convenient to do that now, so I’m using other AV’s for individual file scanning before initializing them.