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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: Infidal on October 02, 2011, 10:53:25 AM

Title: 66hour scan
Post by: Infidal on October 02, 2011, 10:53:25 AM

Hi Guys,

Just downloaded the Mac beta version of avast and set it to do a full system scan. Here are the results:


scanned files: 52687891: Found infections: 853  (this is on a 2 month old mac)
scan duration: 66h 18min 36sec

Now to have a scan take this long simply is not on. Apart from anything else it reduces the usefulness of the computer virtually taking it out of use.
Having found 853 infections i cannot do anything with them as the buttons at the bottom of the scan screen are grey'd out. Is this because the program is in beta?

Title: Re: 66hour scan
Post by: Asyn on October 02, 2011, 11:16:49 AM

Please ask here: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=5.0

Title: Re: 66hour scan
Post by: SHARKY7SHARKY on October 02, 2011, 12:22:02 PM

Testing Beta versions of any product should only be used on test machines in my opinion,
Not on a new system, you are just a guinea pig.
Most sites warn about testing Beta versions & I hope Avast does the same.
Good luck this wont be your only issue I am sure of that.