Yellow Exclamation Warning Pops Up

[Guest]

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

 

[Bill Sanderson]

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.

 

[Guest]

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

 

[Bill Sanderson]

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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[History Fan]

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.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

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

 

[Guest]

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

 

[Bill Sanderson]

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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