How Do I Set Up Automatic Daily Scan

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I just got the Antivirus Trial for 15 days.  I have had a couple other antivirus programs which made it simple and obvious how to schedule daily scans at my my preferred time.  I must be missing something but I have not found a link for Scheduling A Scan   Seems pretty complicated so far with far more features than one would ever need or use but I could be wrong.  I just want to set up the software to scan the files, scan the emails & scan the downloads but it is not obvious on the user interface.  I have links for Scan Now, Settings, Performance, Feedback, Account and Support but no Schedule.  What's up??

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I just got the Antivirus Trial for 15 days.  I have had a couple other antivirus programs which made it simple and obvious how to schedule daily scans at my my preferred time.  I must be missing something but I have not found a link for Scheduling A Scan   Seems pretty complicated so far with far more features than one would ever need or use but I could be wrong.  I just want to set up the software to scan the files, scan the emails & scan the downloads but it is not obvious on the user interface.  I have links for Scan Now, Settings, Performance, Feedback, Account and Support but no Schedule.  What's up??

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Hello Silvercat

 

I just wanted to add that even with your scheduled full system scans, the Idle Quick Scans will still run every time there is a new antivirus definition update when your computer is idle after the idle time has been reached. Thanks.

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floplot wrote:

Hello Silvercat

 

I just wanted to add that even with your scheduled full system scans, the Idle Quick Scans will still run every time there is a new antivirus definition update when your computer is idle after the idle time has been reached. Thanks.

I stated that with "Idle quick scans are also run when new definitions are downloaded and take less than a minute to run."  :smileywink:

 

Allen

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Hello Allen

 

Yes, I know you mentioned that, but wanted to point out that turning off Idle scans and setting up scheduled scans wouldn't stop the Idle quck ones from running also. Some users think that setting up scheduled scans will stop the idle quick ones also.

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Perhaps my wording should have been more explicit. :smileywink: