Avast

[jlaak5]

Hello everyone,

I have decided to give Avast Anitvirus a try, and have a couple of questions.   First of all,unless I am missing it, I cannot find a way to set up a daily scan..............Secondly a question regarding the scanning options.   I am looking for the best of both worlds, quick & thorough scans, that being said, is it necessary to scan the archived files everytime?

Thanks,

[harry 48]

i did the same to-day i'll wait for the answers to if you dont mind , help will come

[evilfantasy]

Unless you do a lot of unsafe surfing or downloading risky files a quick scan should be sufficient. And you should only need to do one weekly, or every other week.

Personally I don't do virus scans with Avast, rather when I do a virus scan I will run an online scan from BitDefender or ESET. I figure if something got in and Avast didn't catch it then doing a scan with it won't be much better.

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BitDefender Online Scanner
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