Lengthy scan with 4.0.467 and Windows 7?

Ran my first version 4.0.467 in-depth scan on my home computer.
Only 4 hours before the scan I had performed a clean install of Windows 7 Professional (32-bit) .

My HD is a 300 GB Velociraptor (10,000 rpm) with only 102 GB occupied.
My CPU is a 3.16 MHz dual core.
Neither me nor anyone else was operating the computer during the scan.

Question: Does the length of time for this scan seem a bit long to you?
Prior scans using Vista and the prior NOD 4.xxx version were only taking 18 minutes and
the HD was occupied with more data than now.

Thanks in advance!
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Scanned disks, folders and files: Operating memory;C:\Boot sector;C:\

Scan completed in 2 hours and 8 minutes.
Number of scanned objects: 744841
Number of infected objects: 0
Number of cleaned objects: 0
Version of virus signature database: 4541 (20091025)
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It sounds like you enabled archive/sfx archive scanning which would extend the scan time. Have you tried disabling these two options or other options in the on-demand scanner setup to narrow it down?

 

You were right Marcos.
I had both of those options enabled within my In-depth scan.
Thank you!
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Archives
Self-extracting archives
Scan completed in 2 hours and 8 minutes.
Number of scanned objects: 744841
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Self-extracting archives
Scan completed in 29 minutes and 34 seconds.
Number of scanned objects: 310389
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In-depth Scan
Scan completed in 26 minutes and 53 seconds.
Number of scanned objects: 296320
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Hello,

Another thing to consider is that the new installation of the operating system may be performing a file indexing operation in the background, which can be a disk-intensive operation.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky