Scheduled scan minimizes full-screen tasks

[gman68w]

How do I prevent the scheduled scan from minimizing full-screen tasks, such as games and video the like?

[Mainard]

Hello Gman88w,

Schedule the scan to be silent

The attached image has highlighted the option to check, if you are doing a full scan change the drop down to full instead of quick.

However, we do not recommend having any applications running during a scan.

Thank you!

[gman68w]

When selecting that option, the option "Terminate program when scan completes successfully" is automatically selected. Does this option shut down Anti-Malware entirely, or does it just prevent the pop-up box that says "Scan has completed successfully" from appearing?

[exile360]

It just closes the scanner, the protection module still keeps running. To check the results of the scan you can open Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware whenever you choose and access the log by clicking on the Logs tab.

Also note that silent scans will not notify you if a threat was found, but if it was, the threat will show up in your log from the scan. If something was found, I would recommend running a Quick Scan manually and removing whatever is detected.