Screensaver-scanner feature request

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi,
Would it be possible to enhance the Avast Screensaver-scanner with some additional options, like “run only once a day”.
Maybe we could think of some other options as well?
Thanks,
Stephan

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StephanP, it will run only once if you disable the loop option as far I know. Until you reboot the computer I mean.

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I checked and Loop is disabled, yet still it will perform multiple (full) scans a day …
My PC is Win7-64bit.
Could that make a difference?

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Are you sure it finishes at the first time? I mean, one round is necessary, all the files.

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Are you sure it finishes at the first time? I mean, one round is necessary, all the files.
I checked again today - Loop is OFF - First screensaver scan was completed this morning - Second screensaver scan has just completed (afternoon)

Sorry, but this is what it is.
(on my Win7/64bit)
Stephan

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Hope the programmers could drop some light here ::slight_smile:

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And the screensaver hasn’t been interrupted in between - i.e. the machine was in “screensaver mode” the whole time from the morning?

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I get multiple screen saver scans during the day with the looping feature unchecked.

When the screen saver comes on the scan starts and finishes its one scan unless I preempt the scan.

However even if the scan finishes the scan will start again the next time that I log in and the screen saver subsequently comes on after the preset period of inactivity.

It seems to me that that is the proper way for the Screen Saver scan to work.

Makes absolutely no sense that you would only want to run a Screen Saver scan once a day or only after you reboot.

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@Nesivos describes the behaviour very well.

  • it runs once during a single screensaver-period (ready within, say 30 min.)
  • it’ll run again at a second screensaver-period

My request is: could we have an extra option to limit this screensaver-scan to once a day, or a minimal period of X hours after the las completed scan?
For me, that’s secure enough. After all, we’ve got all these on-access scans active all the time.
Reason behind: I’d like to save energy and wear of my PC.
(I could of course use sleep-mode or whatnot for this, but my PC serves as a printer-server in the network, so no can do.)