Can you get avast! free as just an on-demand scanner?

[conceptualclarity]

Would avast! accept that or raise hell about it with your system? I know Emsisoft converts to on-demand when its free trial runs out.

Are there other programs that run a good boot scan like avast! does?

 

[echo1]

Avast Free installs in a configuration where the real-time protection is enabled. You can disable real-time protection, essentially rendering it to "on-demand." The only thing you have to remember is that every time your system reboots, Avast Free's real-time protection is automatically re-enabled, requiring you to then disable it.

 

[Cats-4_Owners-2]

Would avast! accept that or raise hell about it with your system? I know Emsisoft converts to on-demand when its free trial runs out.

Are there other programs that run a good boot scan like avast! does?

conceptualclarity, this is a good question! My version of Avast! does not run out until some time in 2015, and it's the first time I've run it on one of our machines (That is, during this decade!) so my gut feeling is that you'd like to keep (or renew) it for the boot scan which I also like, right?

Avast Free installs in a configuration where the real-time protection is enabled. You can disable real-time protection, essentially rendering it to "on-demand." The only thing you have to remember is that every time your system reboots, Avast Free's real-time protection is automatically re-enabled, requiring you to then disable it.

echo1, this is great advice, although I have it set up in reverse for our Windows 8.1 with Avast! in real time, and AdAware (set in compatibility mode) as an on-demand scanner.

 

[jim lin]

if you go into add/remove programs in the control panel you can change the install of Avast by adding
or removing modules or uncheck them as Avast installs and make it a on-demand scanner

at least you used to be able to

for a boot time scan you can use these Avira AntiVir Rescue System,AVG Rescue CD,Dr. Web LiveCD-LiveUSB

burn to cd/usb and boot from one and scan the system with out the OS running

the trouble with this is Avira AntiVir Rescue System,AVG Rescue CD,Dr. Web LiveCD-LiveUSB come out all
the time so you would need to download one before using it



James

 

[echo1]

conceptualclarity, this is a good question! My version of Avast! does not run out until some time in 2015, and it's the first time I've run it on one of our machines (That is, during this decade!) so my gut feeling is that you'd like to keep (or renew) it for the boot scan which I also like, right?

echo1, this is great advice, although I have it set up in reverse for our Windows 8.1 with Avast! in real time, and AdAware (set in compatibility mode) as an on-demand scanner.

That's the nice thing about most applications, they do (with some careful configuration and testing) allow you to "slice and dice" your overall system configuration to meet your particular needs.

BTW, That's a great name you've chosen (I'm a cat lover) and the coffee quote in awesome (I'm a coffee fanatic too).

Cheers

 

[conceptualclarity]

Avast Free installs in a configuration where the real-time protection is enabled. You can disable real-time protection, essentially rendering it to "on-demand." The only thing you have to remember is that every time your system reboots, Avast Free's real-time protection is automatically re-enabled, requiring you to then disable it.

I take it that you mean avast! will forcibly keep you from removing it from autostart with WinPatrol or Autoruns, otherwise you could keep it from doing that resetting of itself at the next boot.

conceptualclarity, this is a good question! My version of Avast! does not run out until some time in 2015, and it's the first time I've run it on one of our machines (That is, during this decade!) so my gut feeling is that you'd like to keep (or renew) it for the boot scan which I also like, right?

I had avast! in 2013, but one day I woke up and it told me I was no longer registered. So I said what the heck, I'll try a six month Webroot trial along with Panda free. Panda free and Webroot ran together just fine, but I eventually got rid of Panda because I had a very difficult, protracted startup on that hard drive, and Panda's service was hitting the CPU Usage too hard early on.

I was impressed with avast!'s features. I will have a paid AV. I would like to be able to run avast! as a subordinate program, with on-demand scans and maybe some of the lesser realtime modules, stopping short of letting it be a full-fledged AV.

echo1, this is great advice, although I have it set up in reverse for our Windows 8.1 with Avast! in real time, and AdAware (set in compatibility mode) as an on-demand scanner.

I thought now you could run AdAware realtime along with another AV, not just on-demand. Realtime compatibility is becoming a selling
point for some AVs: Emsisoft, Webroot, Lavasoft AdAware, and a now-discontinued Italian AV.

if you go into add/remove programs in the control panel you can change the install of Avast by adding
or removing modules or uncheck them as Avast installs and make it a on-demand scanner

at least you used to be able to

Thanks, James. Are you talking about Windows' Add/Remove? I've never seen the capability of tweaking an install there. I know you can uncheck avast!'s modules, but as echo suggests you've got to be able to prevent it from autostarting to make that stick,

for a boot time scan you can use these Avira AntiVir Rescue System,AVG Rescue CD,Dr. Web LiveCD-LiveUSB

burn to cd/usb and boot from one and scan the system with out the OS running

the trouble with this is Avira AntiVir Rescue System,AVG Rescue CD,Dr. Web LiveCD-LiveUSB come out all
the time so you would need to download one before using it



James

Do I recall rightly that Dr.Web CureIt (on-demand) is a boot scanner?

 

[jim lin]

yes in add/remove if i remember right if you have Avast installed you run a repair install from there
and uncheck the modules you do not want or do it durning the install

depends on what OS you are using there are ways to stop Avast from starting i would think like with Ccleaner
or Autoruns,WinPatrole and the like but you might have to disable the auto protect feature

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