I’ve got “EZ Scheduler” programmed to do an AVAST quick scan of C and D at 4 AM every morning. This morning it (AVAST) woke me up with an alarm and an announcement that there was a virus found (words to that effect). Of course, I went back to sleep. When I did get up and check, I found that the virus scan had stopped where and when it found the virus. Directions were followed and after the virus was jailed, I continued the scan. Is there a purpose for this and or, can AVAST be setup to automatically complete the scan?
I also guess that you are also using the ashQuick.exe?
If yes to both then unless you use silent mode and general answer No in the standard shield, advanced settings (which will send the virus to the chest), otherwise you will get bugged (rightly) for a decision on what you want avast to do.
As far as I’m aware the only change would be the auto movement of the file to the chest. However, having read something elsewhere in the forum I’m not sure if this rule for Standard Shield also applies to the ashQuick.exe scan.
One way to test this would be to use the eicar test virus at - http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm, if you try to download one of the test files web shield and standard shield may alarm. You may be able to download one of the test files using https:// so web shield doesn’t scan it.
Place this in a temporary folder and see if it is detected on your scan and if it is moved to the chest.
Following on from the comment “However, having read something elsewhere in the forum I’m not sure if this rule for Standard Shield also applies to the ashQuick.exe scan.”
This would appear to be true because of the nature of the ashQuick.exe, its purpose is really for checking files you download or using the right click context menu to scan a file or folder and not for scheduling full scans. So, using ashQuick.exe it looks like you would have to wait until avast finds a virus and when the alert window pops up, tick the don’t show this window again (or words to that effect). This slightly negates the use of ashQuick.exe for scheduling full scans, something it wasn’t really designed for.
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 take a long time.
Personally I don’t do scheduled scans, I prefer to do a manual scan with my regular weekly maintenance tasks.
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