Does a consecutive full scan or a consecutive custom scan covering an already scanned section take shorter?
Good Morning! phalanaxus! The Custom Scan ArchiveX...ran coincides almost to the minute with my custom scan times. Now in regards to your query...that's where cacheing or Digital Fingerprinting needs to be introduced into Vipre...at the moment on my system it isn't any shorter. If you need to scan in depth with Vipre I would recommend at the moment to using Custom Scan on a permanent basis. Sincerely...Securon
Actually, VIPRE does include a Rapid Scan feature which uses caching to speed up scan times. After you've run at least one scan with this feature enabled, any additional scans should be much shorter. The cache is not created until a scan is run with this feature enabled, however, so you won't see the speed difference until the second scan with the feature turned on.
When scanning with the feature on, any files that had already been scanned and added to the cache would not be scanned again unless the feature is turned off for a scan. If detections are added for any files that might have previously been scanned, they wouldn't be detected with the feature enabled. If using Rapid Scan, I would suggest at least occasionally running a scan with the feature disabled.
okay, 5 and 1/2 hours and the scan is still going? It is not stalled I can see the files changing but sheesh. longest scan ever and it has said it was 99% done 3 hours ago.
yup lol i did a scan on a drive that had about 89gb worth of data and it took almost over 7 hours?? even avira as slow as it scans doesnt take nearly that long. otherwise its not bad. detection so far is mid class for me.
Good Evening! The scan issue has been an issue with Vipre ever since it's introduction with Sunbelt a Decade Ago. Why they can't introduce an effective Cacheing or Digital Fingerprinting feature to reduce scan times...is a mystery. But most important is that Vipre improve it's Detection Rates...it placed very poorly in recent A/V Test and A/V Comparatives Testing...until then I'll place Vipre in Suspended Silence...in my Apps Arsenal. Sincerely...Securon
I have been a long time tester of the betas... Just got the latest AV version, earlier today. Spoiler: Screenshots
Good Afternoon! In the newest version of Vipre if you check Rapid scan...after the initial scan...the Scan times are dramatically reduced. I re-installed Vipre last week...and at Long Last the Cacheing...is now Operable. Sincerely...Securon
Well if AV-Comparatives is meaningful to you, they participate as "threat track vipre" https://www.wilderssecurity.com/thr...eal-world-protection-test-august-2014.368252/
I just installed the new version. I was impressed that during the install it wanted me to uninstall Malwarebytes due to potential compatability problems, but gave me the option to continue installing without uninstalling it. However things went downhill from there sadly. VIPRE was at times using 98% CPU use - I really could not believe it could be so high, but I witnessed it several times. Threats were being automatically quarrantined, even though I had configured VIPRE to not act automatically. I was being prompted when a threat was found, but the popup would not show the name of suspicious file (I had to manually go to the quarrantine to see that). The popup gave me option to get more information - which just took me a webpage describing the found threat. Perhaps in time, the excessive CPU would start to reduce. However I'm not going to find out as I just uninstalled VIPRE. The combination of ridiculously high CPU use and not not prompting for action when a threat is found are more than enough reasons for me to ditch it.
This is not the first time I'd had major performance issues with VIPRE. I remember a number of years ago when it was causing significant slowdowns while keeping CPU use at an absolute minimum - so it must have been due to excessive disk use. But, to be fair performance didn't suffer too drastically when I was using the VIPRE powered Ad-Aware.
