Yellow Exclamation Warning Pops Up

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