Avast - Full Scan

system · 2014-04-15T12:33:35.000Z

I have to question the effectiveness of any AVAST Scan, when a Full Scan of my hard drive (40GB with 500,000 objects) is completed in less than an hour, and other products I use, take anywhere from three to four hours to complete the full scan. Does AVAST only scan the Windows folders ?

Eddy · 2014-04-15T12:40:28.000Z

avast scans the entire drive.
It depends on your settings what it does scan or not.
And yes, avast scans a lot faster than many other products without scanning/detecting less.

Para-Noid · 2014-04-15T13:20:56.000Z

avast also uses the persistent cache to speed up scans. Once a file is in the persistent cache
avast will not scan that file again unless it is accessed again. 8)

I have a custom full scan which scans over 200 GB is around 20 t0 25 minutes.
I run a full scan once a month and a quick scan once a week.

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