Is a startup scan necessary?

I'm getting ready to roll Nod32 out to a bunch of clients, and have some concerns about its "startup scan". Is it really worth the daily performance hit and user whining?

For years I used Trend Micro's product and clients did not perform any sort of startup scanning; only real-time scanning. In all these years I've not had a single actual infection or outbreak.

I'm considering modifying Nod32's startup scan to only check boot sector and operating memory.

Thoughts?

 

I don't see a lot of added extra time using it.. I'd test it with it on, and then roll back if you see problems, and people complain..

 

It's important as it may detect threats that manage to slip through other scanners for whatever reason.

 

Hello Marcos,

My startup scan after a virus signature database update works, but the startup scan after user logon has never run (according to the Scheduler last run log). Any idea on why this would be? I made a thread about it 5 or 6 months back. I'm using Vista and EAV v3.0.

Regards,

Mark.