Avast users : How to get it to quarantine automatically when scanning?

[Draeger]

Last time I manually ran a scan in safe mode, I came back to the PC after leaving it for 30 mins and 10 minutes into the scan it had found a dodgy file, popped up with a warning about it asking me what I wanted to do with it and sat there waiting for my response before continuing.

Don't really want to babysit the thing whilst it is scanning, would rather I could set it to scan and then walk away and come back once it is done. So where about in the settings do I change this so it does exactly that and quarantine's automatically?.

Ta.

 

[Draeger]

Assuming you are using the new (and great!) Avast! 5.0...

(On the main Avast! window) Scan Computer > Scan Now (sub selection) > Select "More Details" below the scan you want > Settings > Actions > Automatically Apply Actions During Scan.

Cheers m8. Nah, I'm using the 4.8 Home Edition. Is 5.0 still in beta or has it been released properly?. I haven't checked the website for a while.

 

[Draeger]

Excellent. I assume it requires a complete reinstall, as in 4.8 won't update to 5.0?. I'll go and have a look at their website. Thanks for the "heads up" that it's out fully now.

 

[Draeger]

Just installed it and yeah - it does that, removes 4.8 automatically.

I'm liking 5.0 a lot!!. Looks great, much nicer GUI than 4.8 and loads more options.

 

[Draeger]

I really dont like how the taskbar icon will have an alert icon on it if you change anything to something it doesnt like, for example, setting updates to manual only.

Is there not a setting to get around that?. I know it did that with the exclamation mark thing when I turned off P2P and IM Guard ( I don't use either ) but if you go into "Settings" and then "Status Bar" you can uncheck them and the exclamation mark on the taskbar icon goes away :-