As a new user to avast am very disappointed in the speed to do a virus scan. .Is ther a general sort of timescale I gave up after around 5 hours or so/
What would be helpful is the scan settings you chose, your, OS, CPU, RAM, and the amount of data to be scanned (otherwise it is impossible to say if this was unreasonable, etc.) ?
I suspect you chose a Thorough scan of all local disks including Archive files.
Archive (zip, etc.) files are by their nature are inert, you need to extract the files and then you have to run them to be a threat. Long before that happens avast’s Standard Shield should have scanned them and before an executable is run that is scanned. Thorough is also by its design very thorough and perhaps a little overkill for routine use, were a Standard scan without archives should be adequate.
I have only ever done a through scan with archives once shortly after installation just to ensure a clean start state, but with XP for example avast will do a boot-time scan after installation if you select it, this I believe will be quicker and reasonably effective. Like everything in life things are a compromise.
Jaymac, besides David’s explanations, do you really think you should measure an antivirus by the on-demmand scanning speed? Instead of non using that much on-access (resident) resources, or having a good detection rate, etc.? :
Ok .Hands up I was shooting from the Lip should have read the instructions first and trying a thorough scan . Thanks guys
No problem, welcome to the forums.
Welcome to forums… we’re just talking, not shooting anybody ;D
Well thats nice to know thats more than can be said for a lot of Forums where if you ask a simple question or make a dumb remark ther are usually several snipers witing to get you
Thanks again
Not this one. Here friendship, sharing help and knowledge are the rules
Welcome to the forums, jaymac.
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