Hi all… My First Post on the forum. (That I remember)
Is there a way to get Avast to scan in unattended mode?
I, like many others, have quite a lot of disc space and it takes hours to do a full scan.
I would like to start full scan, go to bed and process the findings when I get up in the morning.
A standard scan stops on each threat and waits for user input before continuing on with the scan.
I can’t find a way of doing this but there again, I probably haven’t looked hard enough
These automated options are only available in the Pro version. This is a limitation of the Home (free) version that it has interactive input requirement, there have to be differences in the Home/Pro version and this is one of them, the programmers have to eat ;D
In the Home version you can check the option “Don’t show this window again” when the first virus warning appears, select the “No action” button. This way, no action will be taken and you will given the results at the end of the scan (and you can perform actions from there). Over time this will become less of an issue, as the resident, on-access scanners are designed to intercept infection before it gets into your system.
There was one suggestion to place something like the eicar virus test file at the start of the first drive to be scanned in a file like ~a-eicar.com that should soon be detected and you can do the option “Don’t show this window again” when the first virus warning appears, select the “No action” button. So you should have a list of files waiting your action.
In Home version you can check the option “Don’t show this window again” as soon as the first virus warning appears, and click on “No action” button. This way, nothing will be done and you will be presented the results at the end (and you can perform actions from there).
Well, that’s the way it is, I am afraid; you may call it a limitation of the Home Edition of avast!. In the Professional Edition, you can configure the task to perform automatic actions (or, don’t do anything).
In the Home version, you may check the “Don’t show again” checkbox in the Virus warning dialog - but only after the first virus has been found (because you won’t see the virus dialog until then).
Personally I don’t run unattended scans using this work around I prefer to know what is going on and it is an extremely rare occasion that I get an alert on any of my security software, which negates the need to use this work around.
