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@Flood and Flood's wife Ty so much for your help. I have disable the removable drive scan, thanks to you. I’m embarrassed to say did I did not think of scrolling down. Kaspersky has changed so much over the years (and improved I must say). For now I will use it like this and will get back to the forum if any issues come up. I will also try to understand better how the connection of the dock to my laptop works and how external drives are detected and acted upon. Again, ty @Flood and Flood's wife and have a great day

Thank you for the response: 1: The prompts say that the scan was successful and no threats were find. And they can be as many as 20/25. The first time I noticed something was that my hard drive was constantly making noise in short bursts, during the night. I assume it’s because it’s constantly being scanned. As soon as I can I will send screenshots 2: No, I usually do not remove the drive physically. If I did this problem would not happen. I posted this because I wanted to not have to bother having to disconnet either the dock or the external drive everytime I close the laptop lid. I do click on “remove safelly” (without disconnecting) because in linux I was used to simply dismount. And it could be physically connected. But Windows might be different. 3: It’s the free version, this is why I am contacting the forum, otherwise I would contact customer support “4”: is that option (seen on the image you shared) to disable the scan an option in KSC free? I confess that I have searched for that in google before posting and again now before replying and I did not find it. my question: can I disable the autoscan?

How can I disable the autoscan of an external drive? My problem with this is that KSC launches dozens of prompts, with the laptop closed. And if I don’t have the laptop connected to the charger, the battery dies. My computer is new and the battery lasts for a very long time, so in fact KSC is making my PC underperform. I have: Windows 10 Home x64 Build 19042 KSC version: 21.2.16.590 (b) on a: ASUS NT3D54P6 AMD Ryzen 5 4500U The external drive is connected to my laptop using a Lenovo mini usb dock. The problem happens even if I “remove safely” the drive before closing the lid.