On-Line ESET virus scan: Dreadfully Slow why?

[fungus]

Hello

Hopefully I'm posting in the correct forum.

I tried ESET on line scan yesterday and it took so long I canceled it.
Today I tried it again on a different computer, even slower.

I can watch the file names being scanned and the file extension is related to how long the scan takes. This is understandable.

Examples:
.exe files, up to 10 seconds, or more.
.chm files, up to 30 seconds.
.jar files, minutes each - really.
For example RT.JAR scanned in about 2 minutes on computer #1. On computer #2 RT.JAR scanned in 4 to 5 Minutes. That is crazy. :-(

Am I doing something wrong or should I be looking at different AV software?

Does the installed version run any faster?

Disappointed,

Fungus

[Brambb]

I dont know if the NOD32 program scans faster then the online scanner but the online scan might be slow(er) cause you have a real-time program running which also scans the files which the online-scanner is scanning. Ofcours you can install the trial version and see for yourself.

You might want to try the 'Release candidate' online scanner @ http://beta.eset.com/eos - This one scans pretty fast on pc's I used it for. Works like a charm.

[vizhip]

In my experience, the online scanner is much slower than the normal one...

I had a neighbor use the online scanner once... and it appeared to take twice as long, but did the trick...

Regards -
-Bob

[fungus]

At least 2x slow, maybe 5x slow. My C drive holds only 18GB and the on-line scan took 2 hours and 45 minutes to complete.

The file, RT.JAR, scanned for 4 to 5 minutes all by itself.

At that point it suggested that I would want to jump at the chance to purchase it. I don't think so.

Thanks for the response.

Fungus

[vizhip]

Originally Posted by fungus

At least 2x slow, maybe 5x slow. My C drive holds only 18GB and the on-line scan took 2 hours and 45 minutes to complete.

The file, RT.JAR, scanned for 4 to 5 minutes all by itself.

At that point it suggested that I would want to jump at the chance to purchase it. I don't think so.

Thanks for the response.

Fungus

I am not affiliated with ESET, but I do like their AV product... It sounds like something else was running heavily against the hard drive at the same time the online scan was...

Regards -
-Bob

[agoretsky]

Hello,

Is another antivirus program resident on the system? If so, then it is likely that all scan operations are performed twice as each program scans the files.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky