My hard disk only has 5.23 GB, however my Avast Home Edition v4.6 scan it more than 45mins. How can I correct it ,please help me, thanks.
What are your Avast! settings ? Thorough & Archives ?
What are the specs on your PC ?
I use Thorough Scan and also scan the archive files
My computer is 128MB RAM
Thorough, is very thorough, especially if you scan archives as well.
Generally I would run (thorough + archives) this only once, shortly after I had installed avast, to thoroughly check my system.
Archives are inert so I don’t scan them on my regular scans, the reason, if you try to open an archive, standard shield scans it before it is opened.
My usual scans are Standard without archives, reason, because of the on-access protection of standard shield, scanning all created/modified files.
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I do that scan weekly as part of my regular system maintenance and it takes just over 10 minutes for 5.5 GB of data.
128MB of memory is not very much (and you didn’t say anything about your CPU) - so if you have some big archives on your disk, it may really take some time to unpack.
(If you happen to have big archives in one place, you may want to exlude them from avast! scanning - add them to the list of exclusions).