Antispyware does not scan on schedule?

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Harvey

I installed AntiSpyware on our more than 10 WinXP Pro
workstations. All features (auto updating, etc.) look
well except one thing in common: the antispyware does not
run at the scheduled time. I did manual scan
immediately after installation last Friday, then set
schedule time (2AM, everyday) to scan. But, this
morning, I checked these systems, none of them was
scanned, but no error message in the event viewer.
What's wrong? Anybody else has such problem? How to fix
the problem?

Thanks!

Harvey
 
I posted the message below yesterday. Today, I found the
real situation: since I set a daily scan on 2AM on public
computers, then --

1. If the last user logged out before 2am, then the
scheduled scan does not run.

2. If the last user does not log out, but leave his
account opened, or set screensaver with password
protection, then the scheduled scan works.

Is it normal? Should that be improved so that the
scheduled scan runs no matter the last users logs out or
not?

Harvey
 
I have been trying to "scan on schedule" and have read the very interesting
FAQ page. 2q) tells me that I have to be logged on to for the scheduled
thing to run. I stared at the screen for 3 sessions at 3 different times on
Saturday willing it to start scanning, but no luck. Is there something else
I am missing?

AuntieKate
 
I have been trying to "scan on schedule" and have read the very interesting
FAQ page. 2q) tells me that I have to be logged on to for the scheduled
thing to run. I stared at the screen for 3 sessions at 3 different times on
Saturday willing it to start scanning, but no luck. Is there something else
I am missing?

AuntieKate
 
Cracked it! I had been trying to do a weekly scan on Saturday (3 times)
then earlier this evening. When I reset it 15 minutes later to do it every
day - it worked! I hope the good Bill will advise Microsoft of this
glitch! TVM

AuntieKate
 
I don't need to--they read what you post.

I'm basically ignoring scheduler related stuff, mostly--there are so many
bugs that I am certain it is being gone over carefully, and I figure our
time would be better spent looking at this in the next beta version, unless
they tell us this feature isn't done yet.

Apologies to all of you posting about the scheduler, but it's just too far
gone for me to try to redeem it.
 
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