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Re: First scan taking very long
« Reply #15 on: April 09, 2009, 10:15:46 PM »
ah ... right ..but below that you see the following

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Scanned count: 8709
Infected Count: 0
Task name: Resident protection
Run time: 1:23:10:20 (and counting)

This does not look like something you would see during the boot time scan or the standard scan in Avast. Am I making a mistake? It does state "Task name: Resident protection"


Yes.  that is the screen I see. 

The thing I was pointing to and bkaylor confirmed is attached at the bottom of this post.

I'm getting lost. If the computer runs non-stop for 2 days, won't the Resident protection run for that long?
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Re: First scan taking very long
« Reply #16 on: April 09, 2009, 10:28:04 PM »
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Yes, you are correct in that resident protection will run for as long as the computer is running.

Maybe I mis-understood what bkaylor was talking about.


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Re: First scan taking very long
« Reply #17 on: April 09, 2009, 10:43:34 PM »
 :( So sorry I forgot to add the photo in my previous post....

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Yes, you are correct in that resident protection will run for as long as the computer is running.

Maybe I mis-understood what bkaylor was talking about.
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I believed the same thing initially but after several questions and the fact that a thorough scan should not take this long as well as what  bkaylor said before I was certain he was referring to the standard shield. I believe that you have more experience than me so when you started asking questions  I thought I made a mistake so I wanted to make sure ...  :-\

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Core2Duo T8300 / 4GB RAM / Vista Home Premium SP2 (32 bit version) / Same Software.

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Re: First scan taking very long
« Reply #18 on: April 10, 2009, 12:58:49 AM »
I appreciate the feedback.  I'm unsure now if I have a problem.  The computer is running fine; it isn't running slow.

thanks