How do you know it ran a scan?

[robin]

I have it set to run a scan at 12noon. Nothing came up to show it is
scanning. but when i go to the main page it says it did a scan: today at
12:01pm- ummm how do i know what "today" is? why doesn't it put a date
like: Today, June 16, 2006 12:01pm
For all I know it could say "today" every day before 12:00pm.

Does it create a log file somewhere I can check to see if it scanned?

Does it pop up a box only if it finds spyware?

thanks
robin

 

[robin]

you know, I looked in event viewer and saw it scanned but this is a real bad
place for it to be.
For the expert user- they would figure that out but for the novice most
don't even know what "event viewer is".
I teach windows to beginners and there is no way they will be able to
determine if WD is working properly and scanning since it is a service and
nothing pops up unless I am assuming (i have no spyware at this time so I am
not seeing anything) there is spyware.
You need to add in the "home" part the date and time it did a scan so at
least users will be able to see if it did a scan or not or you will not get
users to keep it if they cannot see if it scans.
robin

 

[Guest]

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Hi Robin,
I must agree with your observation and posted a similar note a few months
ago. I think it should be very easy for the WD user to determine the exact
date and time of the scan. A generic bit of information is not very good.

I would also like to see a feature added to the WD icon in the notification
area. The user should be able to determine if WD is enabled or is off (real
time protection feature)

Thanks
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[robin]

hopefully MS is reading this and can make this change before it becomes
final.
This would definetly deter beginning users and even novice users to use
windows defender.
I could not recommend this to my clients who are beginners unless I came to
their office/home once a week and looked in "event viewer" or taught them
how to use event viewer but then everytime there was a warning msg in there
I would be getting a phone call 4x a day
I teach mostly beginners and they would be totally confused by the program
now. I really would like them to use it because I had so many problems with
spyware Doctor and Spysweeper which are suppose to be rated the best but are
not. I do have the free ad aware and spybot on but the problem with those
is you have to remember to do a scan and most beginner users forget. I like
a program that runs in the backround and scans when needs to be scanned. I
also like that WD runs as a processor because it uses less memory but it has
to be USER FRIENDLY or people will not try it.

robin