What to Scan

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi–

I have two 120 GB HDD’s on my system–one Ghosted to the other for backup. I have +/- 50 GB of music files.

If I scan all HDD’s–it’s a good 6-8 hours. Obviously there’s no point in scanning the music files over and over.

What files really need to be scanned on a regular basis? I have Resident Protection set to Standard.

Thanks…

BTW this is my system:

Media Center Registered 10.0.116 – C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 1718 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 785 MB, Free - 479 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1400 / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1233 (xpsp2.030604-1804) / wnaspi32.dll: 4.57 (1008) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-1997 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.57 (1008)

Ripping / Drive D: Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Drive E: Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: No / Play sound after ripping: No

Burning / Drive E: LITE-ON LTR-24102B Addr: 1:1:0 Speed:24 MaxSpeed:24 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: No
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None

bc

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i guess you can skip the ghosted backup and your music files…they should be fine…and set your resident protection to high

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Perhaps the only time the “Ghosted” harddrive would need scanning would be if and when a virus is found on the primary harddrive. :slight_smile:

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Charley–

Good point! :-\

My logic–possibly flawed–would be to do the scan before the backup.

So–the backup would be clean–or am I missing something?

bc

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obviously true ;D

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What’s obvious?

That I’m missing something…?

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I think SHGOH means that it would be obvious that the “Ghost” drive would be clean since you are doing backups after scanning the primary harddrive. :smiley:

Still, if it were me and I found a problem on the primary drive, I would probably scan the “Ghost” drive also … just for my own reassurance. :slight_smile:

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CharleyOh–

Thanks.

Makes sense to me.

bc

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sorry for misleading ;D

thanks CharleyOh for clarifying

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No problem, shgoh …glad to help! :smiley:

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Hi Again–

By using the Folder scan instead of “All Local Disks” I’ve got the scan time down to a reasonable time–5GB scan eliminating the music files.

But it seems I have to reconfigure the folder scan each time I run it–checking all those little boxes–except “My Music.” Is there a way to save the folder setting?

Also I notice the “Date of Last Scan” doesn’t seem to update when I use the Folder Scan. Is there a way to change this so it updates?

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add it to the exclusion list…open avast main program…go to menu…settings…exclusions

if i’m not wrong…the date don’t change until you do a full scan…

just try adding your music to exclusion list and do a full scan…and you never have to configure it again

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good and clear answer shgoh.

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Thanks.

That did it.

bc

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Allright shgoh,
Score one for the good guys. :wink: