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      13th August 2010, 01:45 AM

Every time an update is downloaded and installed for Defender it immediately
runs a system scan afterwards, is there a way to keep it from running the
scan after it updates?

 
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      13th August 2010, 09:45 AM
Post in reply to: gkdiamond
You can cancel it from the Control Panel. You might need to "show all" if
Defender isn't visible.
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      13th August 2010, 01:45 PM
Post in reply to: Corday
Can you elaborate. I have Defender set up to run a quick-scan once a week
(the same week day and time each time) but that has nothing to do with it
automatically running a scan every time it updates. I can not find anything
under tools to prevent it from doing so.



 
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      13th August 2010, 01:45 PM
You'd have to disable Realtime protection to disable the scan at download. If
you don't want to do that, your only alternative is to stop it as I
previously described.
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      13th August 2010, 03:45 PM
Post in reply to: Corday
Thanks but I'm pretty sure I already tried that and while you can stop a
scan that you started or scheduled you can not stop this one using the same
method, and if you kill it in services then when you restart it it will
start again.



 
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