How often do you scan for nasties?

Discussion in 'polls' started by notageek, Mar 10, 2004.

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How ofter do you use you AV?

  1. Once a day

    20 vote(s)
    30.8%
  2. Every other day

    6 vote(s)
    9.2%
  3. 2 times a week

    10 vote(s)
    15.4%
  4. 1 time a week

    18 vote(s)
    27.7%
  5. Once every 2 weeks

    2 vote(s)
    3.1%
  6. once a month

    3 vote(s)
    4.6%
  7. Other (please explain)

    6 vote(s)
    9.2%
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  1. Tassie_Devils

    Tassie_Devils Global Moderator

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    You guys will probably wonder about mine, but:

    AV: About 4-8 weeks.
    AT: Same
    AdAware: Every 7-10 days, depends on my surfing. [edit: I will do a full scan if I have browsed to new sites in a session that are not security/like minded sites]
    Spybot: Same.

    Reasons: Well, I used to scan religiously every week with AT [TDS3] and had my AV set to autoscan every Monday and Friday early mornings. [Was running PC-Cillin at that stage, now run KAV 4.5 PRO].

    The thing is, TDS and KAV are running at RTM all the time, so therefore, logically, anything that's going to happen will be picked up by them at the moment of "impact" so to speak.

    If they don't alert/stop at that time, then a full system scan is not [IMO] going to detect any more then, as it should have stopped the infection in the first place.

    You may say "yes, but there are new defs every day, what about detection of new stuff".

    Simple! The new stuff never existed at that particular point in time, and so when new defs [particularly with KAV updates *every* hour and using Extended Data Bases covering Trojans/Malware] do come out, it is irrelevant to the past scanning as they did not exist at that time.

    I have several test trojans/virri on HDD, and have KAV set up to 'Alert Only' and so I have to be there at time of scanning to Allow/Block once it starts alerting on the test files, before it can continue further.

    I do religiously scan with everything *ANY* downloaded file/s before execution. KAV/TDS/WG. I download to a special folder on desktop, scan and open, rescan each individual file again if they are .exe's just to be doubly sure.

    If you don't trust your AV/AT, etc. you will spend your whole time "getting second opinions".

    btw, I don't even get tracking cookies. :)

    TAS

    edit again: I do also have SpywareGuard running RTM along with SpywareBlaster's set killbits.

    I guess I am lucky in that the only time I have even seen/come close to a nasty [apart from my test ones] was in 2001 PC-Cillin caught a relatively harmless 'Noclose.JS exception' from somewhere and about 2 months ago KAV detected a NETSKY email attachment, as soon as I even 'moused over' the email, let alone open it.
     
    Last edited: Jul 25, 2004
  2. Puzzled

    Puzzled Guest

    I don't understand the logic of this statement
     
  3. Pigman

    Pigman Registered Member

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    NOD32 once per day. :D

    Spybot S&D every 3 days.

    F-Prot for DOS once a week. (Set to scan everything.)

    Adaware once a week.
     
  4. ronjor

    ronjor Global Moderator

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    Once a day. NOD32, F-Prot for Windows on demand, Ewido, Ad Aware.
     
  5. Robyn

    Robyn Registered Member

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    I generally set my scanners running if I have things to do about the house.
    AV - basic boot scan and full system scan daily (heuristic scanning in background)
    TDS basic scan when launched plus full system - daily (resident)
    Ad-aware basic scan at boot (generally make sure to scan when new reference file added)
    Spybot (not so frequent with this but make sure to run at sometime in the week) I find with this after the first install scan and clean nothing is found.
    If I am not at my computer a scan is running but about the house :rolleyes:
     
  6. Cochise

    Cochise A missed friend

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    I run EVERYTHING..EVERYDAY.......how sad is that?.....but I never find anything of any consequence!!.......a bit disappointing really dontcha think....I would love to find some 'Horror' that I would have the satisfaction of destroying....but I never do.......maybe I'm not adventurous enough.....I may go on Safari one day into unknown Web-World just for the Hell of it.....I mean..what's the worst that can happen.....no matter what, I know I have the best people in the World to come riding to my rescue without one accusing finger among em'.........God, I love it here.

    Cochise, :cool:
     
  7. ScanCrazy

    ScanCrazy Guest

    I scan once every 15 minutes with the following apps:

    SpyBot S&D, Ad-aware, Norton AV, McAfee and CCleaner. I then do quick reg checks with RegSupreme and jv16.

    It only takes 14-1/2 minutes between scans.
     
  8. Dazed_and_Confused

    Dazed_and_Confused Registered Member

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    Wow. :eek: And I thought I was going overboard with my once-a-day scans. Actually, every night as I sleep (NOD32 and SpySweeper). :D
     
  9. darkmatter

    darkmatter Registered Member

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    Like Cochise, everyday with everything, sometimes twice a day if people have been on while ive been out, never know what theve been up to!!! :D
     
  10. SuperGeek

    SuperGeek Guest

    ScanCrazy if you scan once every 15 mins. but it takes you 14 1/2 minutes to do it, how can you do anything but scan your computer all day long? o_O
     
  11. gerardwil

    gerardwil Registered Member

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    Still 48 minutes left every day for Wilders
     
  12. Spiderman

    Spiderman Guest

    Whenever my spider senses start tingling.
     
  13. Rainwalker

    Rainwalker Registered Member

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    Twice a we8a0ek.....nothing ever shows up ;)
     
  14. gerardwil

    gerardwil Registered Member

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    One day it will, till then its boring :doubt:
     
  15. Rainwalker

    Rainwalker Registered Member

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    Once upon a time i had a very exciting day.........i'll take boring anytime :p
     
  16. ScanCrazyOCD

    ScanCrazyOCD Guest

    Your right, I'm OCD and diggin' it!
     
  17. Ga1tar

    Ga1tar Registered Member

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    Do a clean sweep every other day especially as my son tens to visit sites which are eye catching to say the least
     
  18. yvonh733

    yvonh733 Registered Member

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    I answered OTHER...for I scan with EVERY NEW UPDATES...as an exemple...if ANTIVIR has two updates in a single day...than I scan twice with this soft...and so on

    Have a good day all, :D
     
  19. muf

    muf Registered Member

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    Anti-Virus - Just once a month
    Anti-Spyware - Once a week
    Anti-Trojan - Once a month

    I have resident AV protection with KAV and resident AT protection with BOClean. I will perform a full scan once a month to check if something got on my pc before my AV or AT had definition's for it. My AT scan is performed using TrojanHunter. As for spyware, well currently this seems to be the most common form of malware these days so i scan once a week. But i do also have resident spyware protection using SpywareBlaster and Spy Sweeper.

    muf
     
  20. wings

    wings Registered Member

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    Full scan few times a week or every day? You guys gotta be kidding! :D
    A do a full anti-virus scan once or twice a year since I'm already well protected in real-time. Last virus I had? It was the year 1987... man, that's a looong time ago! :D
     
  21. Firefoxguy

    Firefoxguy Guest

    For most people paranoia does not make them safer, it just makes them feel safer lol.
     
  22. jon_fl

    jon_fl Registered Member

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    Wow Wings! I thought you were being facetious when you said you scanned every two years. I guess you were serious after all and not bored as I alluded to on a previous thread. I guess I took it the wrong way. Please disregard my previous negative comments. ;)
     
  23. steve1955

    steve1955 Registered Member

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    Hi
    I voted "other" because I scan when its convenient(normally at least once/wk)ie when PC not being used for anything that scan may interfere with
     
  24. x-man

    x-man Registered Member

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    Seems like I never stop. :p
     
  25. Notok

    Notok Registered Member

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    I just automate it all, then I don't have to think about it. It's like with aquariums, the better it can clean itself the better.
     
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