scan schedule not working

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Mike Kennedy

My scan schedule is not executing automatically - any
suggestions on what might be wrong? I have installed the
beta version on other computers without any problems.

Thanks.
 
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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What build?

What's the intended schedule?

To see the build, go to Help, about.

If the build is not 1.0.614, I would download that version--it will update:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...A2-6A57-4C57-A8BD-DBF62EDA9671&displaylang=en

If you are on .614, and the problem is attempting to scan in the afternoon,
you need to reset your locale or your time format to one which uses a
12-hour format, rather than 24 hour. This can be temporary--just long
enough to set the schedule into place.

If you are not on .614, test again with .614 in place, and write back about
what happens then.
 
-----Original Message-----
My scan schedule is not executing automatically - any
suggestions on what might be wrong? I have installed the
beta version on other computers without any problems.

Thanks.

.
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My scan schedule is executing automatically (in the wee
hours overnight) but about once a week I find that there
are 2 instances of MS AntiSpyware each of which has run a
scan. A 2nd icon is in the system tray and stopping the
2nd instance has no affect on the first one.

The only thing I can think of is that after my original
install, I uninstalled (to see if a new problem was due to
incompatibility -- it wasn't) and re-installed. But I
don't see anything obvious in the scan schedule or anything
else.

OS is Win2K patched to current.

dga
 
I've also seen this , both as two scans at different times, and two scans at
the same time.

I'm ignoring it on the pretext that the scheduler is so crazy I can't
imagine that they will allow a single possible binary value to be common
with the code in beta2. (!)

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Can also happen if you don't shutdown MSAS before
reinstalling the application, as it happened to me a few
days ago. The second icon went away after I clicked on
it.

Alan
 
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