Avast 4.8-1335 is running a sensitive scan on my Win XP PC. It’s been at it for 59 hours now.
Is something wrong?
:o
—JG
Don’t know, not enough information to compute.
However generally I would say this isn’t correct.
What type of scan Thorough (presume that is what you mean by sensitive) with (or without) Archives ?
How big is(are) your HDD(s) and how much data is on them ?
What is your OS ?
What is your CPU and RAM ?
Have (or did) you another AV installed in this system, if so what was it and how did you get rid of it ?
What other security applications do you have installed ?
A Thorough scan, the word shown on the slide is “sensitive.”
I have Win XP, Service Pack 3.
It’s scanning my C: Drive It’s not partitioned.
I have no other security applications.
Hard drive is 40 G. I’ve used 16, 19 free.
180 Gh, 448 meg RAM
So far Avast has scanned 47,700 files. I regularly run CCleaner and search out files to remove manually. I clean out my Outlook mailbox.
I believe there are files to delete that I haven’t found yet.
Sounds like things running (in the background) are slowing down the scanning. Run the full scan in safe-mode or run a boot-time scan. That should speed up things a lot.
Thanks, I’ll check my background activity.
Well there is most certainly something wrong with the scan as even if your 40GB HDD was full it wouldn’t take that long, but with just 16GB even if you enabled scanning Archives (which you didn’t say) it shouldn’t be that long.
On my old system which was of a similar spec (but 1GB RAM) my Standard scan without archives would take about 7-8 minutes and be about 37,000 files scanned. I don’t do thorough scans unless it is the first time or I suspect something, I don’t scan archives (they are inert until extracted and run and the resident should scan before that).
I don’t know how you would know there are files to delete that you haven’t found yet, why do you believe this ?
So there has to be something slowing your scan, check the task manager and look at the processes using the CPU percentage and which are the highest 4 ?
After checking and reporting this information I would say to end the scan as there is clearly something wrong, though if you continued to use the computer for other tasks (?) the scan would take longer.
Commonly this kind of interaction/slowing is down to have another AV or remnants and you didn’t answer that question either.
Other security applications are also a factor and ccleaner isn’t a security applivation, so that question also remains unanswered.
Something is wrong like David points. It shouldn’t take that long.
me its taked about 15-30 mins for scan like 19 and more gb ! its nice
I get the impression from previous threads on this topic that my scans are typical enough that you can almost use them as a sort-of-benchmark. On my 35 gig C partition, which has a little under 75 pct free space, a standard scan without archives is about 5 to 6 gigs and takes about 12-13 minutes.