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Offline bob3160

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Re: Non Avast Related
« Reply #15 on: November 28, 2012, 02:59:50 PM »
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scan my computer at least every other day.
Once you've done a boot time scan and you know your system is clean,
on demand and on access protection checks everything you do so,
Why are you running scans so often when your system is clean and everything you do is already constantly being checked ??? ??? ???
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Re: Non Avast Related
« Reply #16 on: November 28, 2012, 03:58:25 PM »
Quote from: bob3160 on November 28, 2012, 02:59:50 PM
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scan my computer at least every other day.
Once you've done a boot time scan and you know your system is clean,
on demand and on access protection checks everything you do so,
Why are you running scans so often when your system is clean and everything you do is already constantly being checked ??? ??? ???

I don't do a boot scan very often and it's the quick scan I run every other day.  Maybe I should start running a full scan every week.
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Re: Non Avast Related
« Reply #17 on: November 28, 2012, 04:02:46 PM »
Quote from: -midnight on November 28, 2012, 03:58:25 PM
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I don't do a boot scan very often and it's the quick scan I run every other day.  Maybe I should start running a full scan every week.

There is no need to run a full scan every week:
- With a resident on-access antivirus like avast, the need for frequent on-demand scans is much depreciated. For the most part the on-demand scan is going to be scanning files that would be otherwise be dormant or inert. If they were active files then the on-access file system shield would be scanning them before being created, modified, opened or executed.

I have avast set to do a scheduled weekly Quick scan, set at a time and day that I know the computer will be on. If for some reason my system wasn't on, no big deal I will catch up on the next scheduled scan.
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Re: Non Avast Related
« Reply #18 on: November 28, 2012, 04:26:43 PM »
My scanning schedule is.... Set the screensaver and forget the rest.  Can't remember the last time I did a scan
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Re: Non Avast Related
« Reply #19 on: November 28, 2012, 04:30:34 PM »
Quote from: essexboy on November 28, 2012, 04:26:43 PM
My scanning schedule is.... Set the screensaver and forget the rest.  Can't remember the last time I did a scan

I don't use a screensaver, if I'm away from the screen it is in standby ;D
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Re: Non Avast Related
« Reply #20 on: November 28, 2012, 05:42:19 PM »
@DavidR

Will set Avast to schedule a weekly Quick scan.  Doesn't matter what time it scans because my computer is always turned on.
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