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Full Normal Scan incedibly slow
« on: February 20, 2013, 06:16:42 PM »
Upgraded to version 7 two days ago. am running a normal full system scan (default) on a 1tb drive in SAFE mode. 33 hours later, I am 55% done!! Dell Pentium 4, 2gb ram, XP sp3

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Re: Full Normal Scan incedibly slow
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2013, 06:25:50 PM »
Try a scan in normal mode.
You may want to add some RAM.
I'd go with at least 4GB RAM.  :)
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Re: Full Normal Scan incedibly slow
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2013, 06:32:26 PM »
Upgraded to version 7 two days ago. am running a normal full system scan (default) on a 1tb drive in SAFE mode. 33 hours later, I am 55% done!! Dell Pentium 4, 2gb ram, XP sp3

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Re: Full Normal Scan incredibly slow
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2013, 06:52:29 PM »
Para-Noid

I am scanning in the "normal" mode & yeah, I need more RAM...  Do you think that is the problem?

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Re: Full Normal Scan incedibly slow
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2013, 07:25:35 PM »
RAM could be part of the problem.
How much CPU are you using during a scan?  ???
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Re: Full Normal Scan incedibly slow
« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2013, 07:27:26 PM »
2GB of RAM on XP is plenty, that is all I have on mine.

Personally I think a Quick scan would be better suited to your needs.
- 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.

That said it doesn't hurt to do a Full scan when you first install avast, but don't change any settings like scanning archives or scanning all files or it will take a very long time.
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Re: Full Normal Scan incedibly slow
« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2013, 07:31:32 PM »
WinXP SP3 is 32 bit.  Unless I'm reading it wrong, it has a 3 GB limit. 4 GB can be installed but not fully used.

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I also have 2 GB in my XP machine, and haven't noticed any performance problem when scanning.
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Re: Full Normal Scan incedibly slow
« Reply #7 on: February 20, 2013, 07:40:23 PM »
RAM could be part of the problem.
How much CPU are you using during a scan?  ???
50% of one processor, zero of the other.  the scan is the only application running & I am in SAFE mode w/o network

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Re: Full Normal Scan incedibly slow
« Reply #8 on: February 20, 2013, 09:13:12 PM »
Try a repair. Control Panel>Programs and Features/Uninstall a program>Uninstall>double click "avast">click "repair">reboot.  :)
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Re: Full Normal Scan incedibly slow
« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2013, 09:27:49 PM »
Try a repair. Control Panel>Programs and Features/Uninstall a program>Uninstall>double click "avast">click "repair">reboot.  :)

will do...  as soon as this scan finishes which should be sometime tomorrow at this rate!!  :o

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Re: Full Normal Scan incedibly slow
« Reply #10 on: February 20, 2013, 09:48:58 PM »
i would also uninstall Ad-aware and SpyBot as you dont need these when you have avast and malwarebytes

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Re: Full Normal Scan incedibly slow
« Reply #11 on: February 20, 2013, 11:19:21 PM »
I also have 2 GB in my XP machine, and haven't noticed any performance problem when scanning.
I did have 3 GB on my Win7 but when I increased it to 6 GB the overall performance including scanning became better.  :)
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Re: Full Normal Scan incedibly slow
« Reply #12 on: February 20, 2013, 11:30:50 PM »
Well, as the signatures shows I've been running Avast on my Dell Inspiron XP with only 1GB of Ram since 2002 with no issues and other Security software as well. At times I would have preferred 2 GB but have gotten by very nicely with just the 1GB. :)

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Re: Full Normal Scan incedibly slow
« Reply #13 on: February 20, 2013, 11:46:08 PM »
I also have 2 GB in my XP machine, and haven't noticed any performance problem when scanning.
I did have 3 GB on my Win7 but when I increased it to 6 GB the overall performance including scanning became better.  :)

On a WinXP 32bit machine? ???

Win7 can handle more memory.
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Re: Full Normal Scan incredibly slow
« Reply #14 on: February 21, 2013, 03:46:49 PM »
Well, after right at 48 hours, the "normal" full system scan completed.  It found 4 files (it found these files in the very beginning of the scan) that it classified as a threat and suggested moving them to "The Chest" - which I did.  It then suggested that I do a bootscan upon reboot and I hit "Okay".  The computer rebooted but it did not kick off the bootscan - I assume because I did the full scan in SAFE mode.  So I waited until windows finished loading, launched avast, scheduled a bootscan and rebooted.  That was at about 7:30pm last night.  It was at 46% at 5am this morning.  It has found quite a few (I won't know how many until it is done & I can review the log) more files that it has classified as threats that I have moved to "The Chest"...

I guess my question at this point is why weren't these files found during the 48 hour "normal" full system scan ???