Automatic Scan at Startup

Hi,

I've recently installed NOD32 AV throughout my company and so far so good. One issue I've got is that everytime a user reboots their pc, NOD32 is perfoming a scan at startup. I've removed all the scheduled tasks, except for the auto updates and a weekly scan.

I can't seem to find where this scan is being scheduled from

Thanks for any help

 

Hello crutter,

The startup scan only take a few seconds to run and should not cause too much of a slow down. However, disabling it from the scheduler should keep it from running at startup. Did you disable it from the workstation or through Remote Administrator?

 

I wouldn't recommend disabling automatic startup scans as they provide another layer of protection and may discover threats if other modules fail to for whatever reason.

 

I've disabled it through Remote Admin.

The only reason I have disabled it is because each morning every pc is perfoming a scan and does slow things down a bit.

It's still doing it since I've removed the scheduled task, so I'm not sure where I need to look next.

The scan it is running seems to take between 20-60 mins, depending on the machine and is doing a memory, boot sector and hard drive scan. The type says locally scheduled and on-demand scanner. Possibly I've included too many things in the start-up scan config.

 

You're confisuning startup scans with on-demands scans scheduled to run at startup. You should leave only the default startup scan tasks enabled and re-schedule to run on-demand scans, let's say, once per week at the time when the computers are idle. Running a full system scan at each computer startup is a bit of overkill IMHO.

 

I totally agree. I've set the scan to run on a friday afternoon. It's just all pc's seem to be doing a complete scan at startup.

Maybe I have messed up the default scanning options of the startup, file or kernel scanner. I'm now looking for the a default config file to compare with

 

I don't know. On my PC the Automatic startup file check (and i do mean the Automatic startup file check as i have NO scheduled scans) can take a couple of minutes and does delay things a bit. This occurs on every startup.

Also been to a client of mine and his Automatic startup file check is even longer and can go on for 4-5 minutes totally hogging the PC. His spec is AMD 64 X2 3800+, 1 GB RAM and Vista Home Premium.