Schedule a scan

Avast Mac Security
1

Has anyone figured out how to bypass the ability to schedule a scan in Avast Free for Mac? An app or a automator action would be helpful.

2

You can do it the UNIX way by using cron and the command line scan utility.

3

Cron skips a job execution, when the computer is asleep. The easiest way is to instruct a launchd to run the avast! application with a scanned directory as a parameter https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man5/launchd.plist.5.html, https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/macosx/conceptual/bpsystemstartup/Chapters/ScheduledJobs.html.

Create a plist file as below in ($HOME)/Library/LaunchAgents folder and logout/login.
~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.avast.schedule.plist (launches each Tuesday at 11:14AM):


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>Label</key>
	<string>com.avast.schedule</string>
	<key>ProgramArguments</key>
	<array>
		<string>/Applications/avast!.app/Contents/MacOS/avast!</string>
		<string>~/Downloads</string>
	</array>
	<key>EnableGlobbing</key>
	<true/>
	<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
	<dict>
        	<key>Hour</key>
        	<integer>11</integer>

        	<key>Minute</key>
        	<integer>14</integer>

        	<key>Weekday</key>
        	<integer>2</integer>
	</dict>
</dict>
</plist>