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Old December 25th, 2004, 11:51 PM
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Default sorry!!! slow AV scanning

why does it take so bloody long to scan my puter

use panda platinum 7 and AVG 7, both around 40+ mins i believe?

scanned with online bitdefender.... over 3hrs!! also found like 20 virus/trojans
when i manually deleted corrupt files the next bitdefender scan took 45 mins

how can i scan faster, is there tricks, things i am not doing?

i'd post a screen shot of activities if i knew how?

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Old December 26th, 2004, 12:08 AM
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Default Re: sorry!!! slow AV scanning

40 mins is about normal, I believe. If you want a faster AV, you might try NOD32.
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Old December 26th, 2004, 12:11 AM
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Default Re: sorry!!! slow AV scanning

panda platinum 7 scanned my system p4 2.5 1gb ram in sixteen minutes. fourty minutes is way to long. mcafee 8.0i ent. scans the same sys in twelve minutes and nod in about the same time as mcafee. how many gigs are you scanning and are you running xp.
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Old December 26th, 2004, 02:31 AM
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Default Re: sorry!!! slow AV scanning

think i have an 80gig HD, no where near full and xp sp2 with pentium 4 2.4ghz i beleive
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Old December 26th, 2004, 02:55 AM
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Well,BitDefender is very thorough so it might take longer than others.
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Old December 26th, 2004, 03:33 AM
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I've got NAV. Slow as a wet week on the scan......about half hour to do 80Gb HDD.....used about 20Gb. Ewido takes a while too.
 

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