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Re: Re: Symantec Antivirus client locally created scheduled scan is not running if the local console is logged off
From: Eitan Caspi <eitancaspi () yahoo com>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 23:20:35 +0200
Hello Bone Machine, First of all, I would like to apologize I forgot to mention exactly that the issue is ONLY with the "Corporate Edition" client, and not with any other client by Symantec, as far as I have checked, since this is the only version I have checked. The issue here is with the initialization of the scan, and not the scan itself - since scans created centrally and delivered to the clients - DO run at the expected date and time, whether you are logged in or logged off, using the same process ("rtvscan.exe") as the locally created scans use. I believe you are mixing things up. You wrote: "When a scan is scheduled using the user-part, the user-part checks if it is time to perform a scan." The creation of the scan and the initialization of the scan are two different things, not related to each other: 1. The scheduled scan is created locally via the user interface, by a logged on user. After the scan is created, the "logged on" part is finished. 2. The check if there are any scans to run at all AND if it is time to start any scan - is done by the service, and thus does not needing any logged on user. The scheduled scan created is simply a set of definitions waiting to be initialized by the client's service. After all, this is the whole idea of a service - not needing a logged on user to perform actions. Regards, Eitan Caspi Israel Blog (Hebrew): http://www.notes.co.il/eitan Blog (English): http://eitancaspi.blogspot.com "Technology is like sex. No Hands On - No Fun." (Eitan Caspi)
Current thread:
- Symantec Antivirus client locally created scheduled scan is not running if the local console is logged off Eitan Caspi (Mar 21)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Symantec Antivirus client locally created scheduled scan is not running if the local console is logged off BoneMachine (Mar 22)
- Re: Re: Symantec Antivirus client locally created scheduled scan is not running if the local console is logged off Eitan Caspi (Mar 22)
- RE: Re: Symantec Antivirus client locally created scheduled scan is not running if the local console is logged off Scrimsher, John P (Mar 23)
- RE: Re: Symantec Antivirus client locally created scheduled scan is not running if the local console is logged off Eitan Caspi (Mar 28)