Avira doesn't finish scan

Alan_Cross

My last scan with avira ended with a 'the scan has finished' message and a progress figure showing '59%'.

On checking out the offered 'report', I noticed that it asked in 4 different places for me to 'please restart the scan with administrator rights'.

Any thoughts, guys?

HoofeHearted

Alan_Cross wrote: »

My last scan with avira ended with a 'the scan has finished' message and a progress figure showing '59%'.

On checking out the offered 'report', I noticed that it asked in 4 different places for me to 'please restart the scan with administrator rights'.

Any thoughts, guys?

Suspect Your OS is Vista or Windows 7. You need to right click on the Avira icon and select "Run as Administrator"

aliEnRIK

As above, right click the avira symbol and select RUN AS admin (If the options not there press the SHIFT key when you right click at the same time)

Alan_Cross

I'm afraid neither of the above gets me any 'administrator' option.

This is bizarre.


Can anyone tell me how to run Avira in this way?

aliEnRIK

Alan_Cross wrote: »

I'm afraid neither of the above gets me any 'administrator' option.

This is bizarre.


Can anyone tell me how to run Avira in this way?

It wont say 'administrator', it just says 'run as...'

Lil306

As above

Windows 98-XP - right click the shortcut (has a little arrow bottom left), choose
"Run as" a box will appear, type the username and password for administrator account

Windows Vista - Windows 7 - right click the shortcut, choose "run as administrator"

Alan_Cross

None of that worked.

Anyway, I finally found it mentioned after going through 'properties' to 'advanced properties'.

There is a choice of 'run as administrator' or 'run in separate memory space' and the latter is already ticked. Both are faint and I cannot change the tick.

fiddiwebb

Alan

Is this the free version of Avira and was it running ok before?

If it's just the free version just uninstall it and download it again.

dogmaryxx

Alan_Cross wrote: »

My last scan with avira ended with a 'the scan has finished' message and a progress figure showing '59%'.

On checking out the offered 'report', I noticed that it asked in 4 different places for me to 'please restart the scan with administrator rights'.

Any thoughts, guys?

Main scan may well be finished.

Post the log /report so we can see areas requiring administrator rights'.