Under what circumstances does an active scan go back and start over? I have a situtation where if the scanner is running and I do just about anything else, the scanner completes its list of objects to check and goes right back to the beginning to starts scanning again. In fact I don’t think it would ever stop unless I walked away from the machine for however long it took to complete one scan. Which, if I set the scanning rigor high enough could take a hell of a lot of time.
I’m going to take a guess as there is little information on what type of scan you are doing.
You are going to run an on-demand scan, you have chosen Local Disks and you have also chosen Folder selection and ticked your drives. This would effectively generate two scan requests. Local Disks scans all HDDs,
The Folder selections allows for a selective (reduced) scan of a specific folder.
It’s an on demand scan but I check only ‘C’ (it’s the only local drive) and nothing underneath it is checked.
How exactly did you initiate the scan? (click by click, please)
If you checked the C drive, then you used the Folder selection, by default it would scan sub folders I believe, but I could be wrong.
If you also clicked Local Disks, this would also scan all drives (only C in your case) a duplication of the scan you chose in Folder selection ?
You need only select one option, either all Local (non-removable) drives or Folder selection but not both as it will duplicate what you have selected using Folder selection.
Nope. Again Just checked the C:\ box nothing underneath it.
Start Avast
let memory scan run to completion
Click scan local drives - set to Standard, archive yes
Click on Select the Areas
Check C:, document folders and desktop folders are checked automatically by the tool
OK
Start scan
Well, that’s the common mistake… maybe we could emphasize it somehow ???
If you click on “Scan local drives”, you are saying avast! to scan all your local disks.
When you further click on “Select areas”, you choose additional areas to be scanned (besides your local disks). So, when you select C: drive there, your C: drive will be scanned twice.
So, what I’m trying to say is that you should click either “Local drives”, or “Folder selection” (before starting the scan with the “Play” button) - not both.