No longer runs scheduled scan

[amg]

With the new version the scheduled scan will no longer run. I have reset it
multiple times, for 2 am daily and nothing happens. I am running Windows XP
Pro, nothing shows up in the Scheduled Tasks for this program, but I do not
recall if it did with the prior version. I am running 614. The definitions
download is working fine and automatically. ?reinstall

 

[Tom Emmelot]

amg schreef:

With the new version the scheduled scan will no longer run. I have reset it
multiple times, for 2 am daily and nothing happens. I am running Windows XP
Pro, nothing shows up in the Scheduled Tasks for this program, but I do not
recall if it did with the prior version. I am running 614. The definitions
download is working fine and automatically. ?reinstall

Hello Amg,

try this:
Goto: Start/Control Panel/Add-Remove programs/MSAS
then click on suport info!!!
Then click on repair!

With Regards >*< TOM >*<

 

[Andre Da Costa]

By Bill Sanderson:

I've dug into this bug, as follows:

Users in locales where the default clock is a 24 hour
format will find that they cannot set scheduled scan times
in the afternoon.

This can be worked around by selecting a time format which
uses 12 hour format rather than 24 hour.

This is on the Time tab, and a working format is: h:mm:ss
tt

A non-working format is: any of the choices with a CAPITAL
H at the beginning.

This isn't my discovery, it was posted by others here, but
I've done some testing:

1) I set my language to English (United Kingdom) afternoon
settings failed (default time is 24 hour.) Reset time to
12 hour,and afternoon settings worked.

2) I set my language to English (United States) Default
time setting is 12 hour. Scheduling scans in the
afternoon works fine. Change just the time
settings to a 24 hour choice, and you can no longer set up
a scheduled scanin the afternoon.

This bug appears to me to be new in build 614.
Control panel, date, time, language, and regional settings
Regional and language options Click customize next to your
locale setting Click the time tab.
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[Rich Young]

-----Original Message-----
amg schreef:
Hello Amg,

try this:
Goto: Start/Control Panel/Add-Remove programs/MSAS
then click on suport info!!!
Then click on repair!

With Regards >*< TOM >*<
.

I am having the exact same problem that Amg is having. I
just tried Tom's suggested fix and it did not work. My
summary screen of MSAS reports "Scan Schedule: runs at
2:00 AM every day". If I go to the "Manage your scan
schedule" screen, there appears to be nothing set. I set
the "Schedule SpyWare Scan" to "Daily/Every Day" and
the "Start time" to 2:00 AM, then select "Update
schedule". I get a message that the "SpyWare scan
schedule has been updated". The upper left of that
screen reads : "Current scheduled SpyWare scan runs at:
lblScheduleDisplay" (this never changes). If I return to
the Summary screen, everything looks good. When I return
to my schedule manager screen, it once again appears that
no schedule is set. MSAS never runs unless I initiate it
manually.

Thanks for any suggestions,
Rich

 

[Tom Emmelot]

Hello Rich,

try this:
Go to start/config/Country settings
Change Language to US Inglisch.
Close with OK or Apply
Open MSA change all your time settings the way you wont.
Then go back to set your default Language.
MSA will scan and update on the right time!

Regards >*< TOM >*<

Rich Young schreef:

 

[amg]

Tom - the repair worked perfectly! Thanks for the tip.

Alan