Actually scheduled scans for an AV program are a waste of time. A good AV
solutions scans in the background and is totally unnoticeable to you the
user. Avast does this by default. About the only time you really need to do
a full scan is if you think you have been infected.

Dan


"Mary" <absolutelymary@calm.com> wrote in message
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> Ok, thank you all very much. I have one more question though, does this
> Avast have a scheduled daily scanning of my pc you can setup in the
> program? I know that it automatically checks for updates so that's good.
>
> Thanks again.
> Mary
>
> "Rock" <Rock@nospam.net> wrote in message
> news:eZpRxVQnHHA.4960@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> "Mary" wrote
>>>I just got this laptop and deleted that Norton Virus which came with it
>>>and I definitely did not want. Now my home xp has the Shield Antivus
>>>2007 but does not include Vista just xp..
>>>
>>> What antivirus program is everyone using for this Vista Business?
>>
>> On the free side I recommend Avast. That's what I use. For paid there
>> is NOD32, and Kaspersky, both excellent.
>>
>> --
>> Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]
>
>