I’m creating a task to do a full system scan every night, and I created a new task called “daily full system scan” and under the “AREAS” section, I’m left wondering which would be the items I’d want to select to scan Floppy A:, all hard drives, and any usb flash drives plugged in to have Avast do a thorough scan which won’t take forever and won’t duplicate scans (like selecting local hard drives and rootkit scans and having local hard drives scan actually include a rootkit scan and thereby end up doing 2 rootkit scans being redundant and making the full scan ungodly long).
Also, under “TYPES”, which options to select or not? I mean, there is no guideline given as to the difference in relative times between “thorough but slow” and “fast”. And, will “fast” find most if not all infections or is “thorough” required? Finally, will “scan default extensions” allow many more infections to sneak past the scanner and how will that option affect the full time length of the scan?
Here are some system specs:
XP 32 with sp3
1089 Gigs of hard drive space
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5200+; 2705 MHz
Mamory: 4 Gigs
Processes running:
Online Armor Firewall
Memturbo
Firefox Preloader
cFosSpeed Packet Shaper
I think that should be enough relevant info.
Thanks in advance.
P.S. Also, I’d like to know how to change the level or amount of heuristics that are used(to create false positives) in addition to just using only the Virus Definition Files.