avast!-related question

[Sang]

I'm using avast! antivirus here which is all fine and dandy but the program does seem to have a flaw:

As soon as I start up my PC it begins scanning all the folders for viruses. I thought it'd do this only once on installation but it seems it does this everytime I start up my PC.. I'm very careful about what stuff I download so all those extra scans really do seem a bit redundant.

What's also annoying is that it uses at least some CPU power.. I've tried stopping the scan, but that completely disables my protection altogether. So uhhh what to do?

[unforgiven]

I hate this buggy Antivirus

If you're looking for a reliable Antivirus I suggest you to get ESET NOD32 , Kaspersky or BitDefender

[NutWrench]

I have avast and it doesn't do this.

[Geir]

I'm using avast! antivirus here which is all fine and dandy but the program does seem to have a flaw:

As soon as I start up my PC it begins scanning all the folders for viruses. I thought it'd do this only once on installation but it seems it does this everytime I start up my PC.. I'm very careful about what stuff I download so all those extra scans really do seem a bit redundant.

What's also annoying is that it uses at least some CPU power.. I've tried stopping the scan, but that completely disables my protection altogether. So uhhh what to do?

Do the things that seem like it would fix the problem, like reinstalling.

[Steve]

I have avast and it doesn't do this.

Likewise. Avast! does not do such things on my PCs.

[Dave-ros]

Nor here. Must be a daily scan set up on Sang's computer :confused:

[Wamplet]

Nor here. Must be a daily scan set up on Sang's computer :confused:

sounds like it is scheduled or maybe a startup scan is set.

check msconfig and then go in the program and check the scheduler if it has one.

Then you can check the windows task scheduler and check there as well, if you have one set up.


I recently picked up Kaspersky and it's way better than my old mcafee. My computer shuts down in just seconds, rather than the whole minute it took when i had mcafee. :o

[Sang]

Well I don't know if this'll help but the feature seems to be called "On Access Scanner" or something like that.

[Phayzon]

Heh, thats just avast!'s way of doing real-time protection. Norton, McAfee, AVG and Im sure plenty others (Ive only ever used those) do this too. :)

[Chimera]

When you first install avast, it pops up with a box that says "do you want to schedule a boot time scan?"

I think you clicked yes.