Yellow Exclamation Warning Pops Up

I have WD set to scan every Sunday at 10pm. In spite of this schedule, the
"you haven't scanned in X days" exclamation in yellow pops up in sys tray.
Annoying. How do I stop this behavior? Thanks.

DB
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I don't have a workround for this at the moment.

You might consider scheduling a quickscan, which may take under 5 minutes,
on a more frequent basis.

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"David Brian" <DavidBrian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A60D4831-D2C5-46F3-A549-9A7E089F965D@microsoft.com...
>I have WD set to scan every Sunday at 10pm. In spite of this schedule, the
> "you haven't scanned in X days" exclamation in yellow pops up in sys tray.
> Annoying. How do I stop this behavior? Thanks.
>
> DB
> --
> We're all riding on the same starship!

Thanks Bill. I will try the short scan. I was sitting here at 10 or so while
the scan was in progress and all of a sudden, the A Drive started humming and
buzzing really loud. I had to ctrl/alt/del to stop the scan. Once I had
stopped the processes, the humming stopped, too. Can't imagine what would
have caused this. Think I will uninstall and reinstall. Possibly something is
not set up right. Thanks again.

DB
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We're all riding on the same starship!


"Bill Sanderson" wrote:

> I don't have a workround for this at the moment.
>
> You might consider scheduling a quickscan, which may take under 5 minutes,
> on a more frequent basis.
>
> --
>
> "David Brian" <DavidBrian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A60D4831-D2C5-46F3-A549-9A7E089F965D@microsoft.com...
> >I have WD set to scan every Sunday at 10pm. In spite of this schedule, the
> > "you haven't scanned in X days" exclamation in yellow pops up in sys tray.
> > Annoying. How do I stop this behavior? Thanks.
> >
> > DB
> > --
> > We're all riding on the same starship!
>
>
>

Fullscans may require access to the A drive on Windows 2000 machines--I've
seen this, and others have posted here about it. This seems to me to be a
bug--best workaround I know of is to put a diskette in the drive.

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"David Brian" <DavidBrian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ECDF2858-C24F-46BE-AADA-FE8B19790BC2@microsoft.com...
> Thanks Bill. I will try the short scan. I was sitting here at 10 or so
> while
> the scan was in progress and all of a sudden, the A Drive started humming
> and
> buzzing really loud. I had to ctrl/alt/del to stop the scan. Once I had
> stopped the processes, the humming stopped, too. Can't imagine what would
> have caused this. Think I will uninstall and reinstall. Possibly something
> is
> not set up right. Thanks again.
>
> DB
> --
> We're all riding on the same starship!
>
>
> "Bill Sanderson" wrote:
>
>> I don't have a workround for this at the moment.
>>
>> You might consider scheduling a quickscan, which may take under 5
>> minutes,
>> on a more frequent basis.
>>
>> --
>>
>> "David Brian" <DavidBrian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:A60D4831-D2C5-46F3-A549-9A7E089F965D@microsoft.com...
>> >I have WD set to scan every Sunday at 10pm. In spite of this schedule,
>> >the
>> > "you haven't scanned in X days" exclamation in yellow pops up in sys
>> > tray.
>> > Annoying. How do I stop this behavior? Thanks.
>> >
>> > DB
>> > --
>> > We're all riding on the same starship!
>>
>>
>>

Apparently Windows Defender will warn you, via the yellow
exclamation point systray icon, if you haven't run a scan after 3 days. To
get around this annoying reminder, I have WD set to scan every day at a
specified time.

Quickscans range from 1 to 10 minutes on machines I've looked at, and are
MUCH lighter on resources than fullscans, fwiw.

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"History Fan" <UnknownplacesonEarth@unknown11.com> wrote in message
news:uMZNac8OGHA.3204@TK2MSFTNGSA03.privatenews.microsoft.com...
> Apparently Windows Defender will warn you, via the yellow
> exclamation point systray icon, if you haven't run a scan after 3 days.
> To get around this annoying reminder, I have WD set to scan every day at a
> specified time.
>

Terrific. Thanks for the suggestions. I have to install OneCare and WD on all
of my machines at work, so it's nice to know some of these things. Thanks
again for your help!

DB
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We're all riding on the same starship!


"Bill Sanderson" wrote:

> Quickscans range from 1 to 10 minutes on machines I've looked at, and are
> MUCH lighter on resources than fullscans, fwiw.
>
> --
>
> "History Fan" <UnknownplacesonEarth@unknown11.com> wrote in message
> news:uMZNac8OGHA.3204@TK2MSFTNGSA03.privatenews.microsoft.com...
> > Apparently Windows Defender will warn you, via the yellow
> > exclamation point systray icon, if you haven't run a scan after 3 days.
> > To get around this annoying reminder, I have WD set to scan every day at a
> > specified time.
> >
>
>
>

I've done that on a few dozen machines. OneCare has a ram minimum that you
need to watch out for, and a few installs have been a bit touchy about the
firewall. If the app goes red and the firewall won't start, uninstall and
reinstall, fwiw.

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"David Brian" <DavidBrian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B1834716-100E-46FA-A1EA-903340CD978C@microsoft.com...
> Terrific. Thanks for the suggestions. I have to install OneCare and WD on
> all
> of my machines at work, so it's nice to know some of these things. Thanks
> again for your help!
>
> DB
> --
> We're all riding on the same starship!
>
>
> "Bill Sanderson" wrote:
>
>> Quickscans range from 1 to 10 minutes on machines I've looked at, and are
>> MUCH lighter on resources than fullscans, fwiw.
>>
>> --
>>
>> "History Fan" <UnknownplacesonEarth@unknown11.com> wrote in message
>> news:uMZNac8OGHA.3204@TK2MSFTNGSA03.privatenews.microsoft.com...
>> > Apparently Windows Defender will warn you, via the yellow
>> > exclamation point systray icon, if you haven't run a scan after 3 days.
>> > To get around this annoying reminder, I have WD set to scan every day
>> > at a
>> > specified time.
>> >
>>
>>
>>