AVAST! and slow scanning

does anyone else has this experience too ? If I do a on-demand scan it takes my PC almost 1 hour to scan my HD, previously it was only about 30 minutes
It seems to me that the standard scan is constantly replaced by the deep scan .... nothing else is changed on my pc so it must be the new version which is causing this ....

 

V4.8? Yes, it´s my experience too.

 

i reccomented avast 4.8 to someone who had an infected computer.
they ran a boot time scan and it took all night. something like 60 out of 70gb used with little amount of archives.

 

so I am not alone : what a relief but .... any remedy
is this bug already known at Allwil

 

Scan time of Avast 4.8 : 1h1m33s.

 

That is reasonable.

 

Do you scan archieves in thourough mode?

 

Scan archieves was disabled while I was running a thorough scan, that's why the scanning was so fast probably.
I run all these scanners only one time. In theory they are supposed to find only false positives and that happens also in practice.

 

This is the scan that is done on my son's computer about every 5 days or so.

 

Avast 4.8 very slow full system "Quick scan"

 

Install BD 10 free along with it and scan with that.The scan time will be lower and your computer will be scanned by 2 antiviruses in same time with the help of the real time scaner of AVAST.Just a suggestion ,and keep in mind that BD 10 its better in detection of spywares and adds.These 2 antiviruses complete each other just well.

 

The update process may conflict?

 

like people said.... the more a scanner scans, the slower it is.

its not rocket-science, avast 4.8 scans more than before.

i never understand the reason for having a 'fast scanner', to me... this makes me wonder about what actually is being scanned.

 

It is true that some are faster then others for the way they were made.

 

A program (any modern AV program) must be as light and fast as possible . In such a dynamic world we live in one can no longer afford waiting slow scans . ~Off topic comment removed. - Ron~ Slow scan doesn't mean better detection

(sorry for the off-topic)

 

You can add me to list of people who found avast to scan slowly.

Speed may not be the most important factor in scanning, but a slow scanner just discourages me from running it (yes I can run it overnight, but thats besides the point).

 

Ppl still run on-demand scans? Thats so pre-Win3.1...
Why the heck we have real-time scanners then?

 

You're right.....when a system is clean......why not trust the real-time modules?
But before one knows it's clean for sure, that's when the on-demand comes in and can be used for the initial scan and after that.........let the real-time factory do it's work!

 

If you'd ever access infected file already on your system you'd be notified anyway. So not even initial scan is needed...

 

Hey RejZoR, for me, the reason for ondemand scanning is I dont run realtime AV.

 

In addition with some AVs, the highest heuristic settings are only available with the Scanner.