DavidR
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There is a reason the Apply button is inactive, unless you are looking at that window at the end of the scan (e.g. you haven’t closed the scan), then you are looking at ‘historic’ data the old Scan Log and this is reporting the actions that you took at the end of the scan.
You can’t repeat or change those actions as that window isn’t the live scan, this is why you can’t change the action and why the Apply button is greyed out, inert.
As it says on the tin, e.g. the Scan Computer section, Scan Logs, these are just the logs, historic data and not the condition of your system at the time you view the old ‘Scan Log’
You haven’t wasted your money, just that you are mistaking the historic data displayed of the results of a previous scan as being live.
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So aside from some confusion, you should be good to go.
Bearing in mind what Pondus says about electing to scan memory in a custom scan.
- 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.