Scaner Pause, Scanner Suspend

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Philip

I know this feature is unlikely to be implemented in WD, but I'm posting it
everywhere I think it might help

IMO - All parasite scanners should provide a Pause Scan feature, which would
put the scanner into abeyance; this would be used when the user needed the
resources for a short while to do something else, Resume would continue the
scan.

IMO - All parasite scanners should provide a Suspend Scan feature, which
puts the scanner into a restartable state, i.e. a checkpoint restart is
taken. This would be used if the user wanted to shutdown the OS, restart,
shutdown etc. A suspended would continue on receipt of a Continue request.

The actions would be available via the tray icon context menu, the scanners
main user interface and the command line program scannerNameCommand.exe

The command line program would provide the argument -scan=p|r|s|c which
would cause the scanner process to be found and sent a message telling it
what to do in accordance with the value of the -scan argument. It may also
be possible to add a -show argument that would cause the scanner to do
whatever needs to be done to reveal its icon, this would be used if/when the
icon goes AWOL from the sysTray.
 
I agree with Philip that the lack of a 'Pause' button is a serious
inconvenience. Also, if a full scan is stopped without completing, WD regards
it as a full scan and stops warnig that you have not scanned your system for
a while. The two issues combined can turn an annoyance (temporary lack of
resources) in to a false sense of security and thus a risk to ones system.

An estimate of the time (left) required to run a scan would be nice as well.
 
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