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Wesley

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Scan so slow
« on: February 27, 2005, 07:14:27 AM »
My hard disk only has 5.23 GB, however my Avast Home Edition v4.6 scan it more than 45mins. How can I correct it ,please help me, thanks.
« Last Edit: February 28, 2005, 11:24:38 AM by Vlk »
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FastGame

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Re: Scan so low
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2005, 07:58:25 AM »
What are your Avast! settings ? Thorough & Archives ?

What are the specs on your PC ?
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Wesley

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Re: Scan so low
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2005, 12:35:18 PM »
I use Thorough Scan and also scan the archive files

My computer is 128MB RAM
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Re: Scan so low
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2005, 04:23:13 PM »
Thorough, is very thorough, especially if you scan archives as well.

Generally I would run (thorough + archives) this only once, shortly after I had installed avast, to thoroughly check my system.

Archives are inert so I don't scan them on my regular scans, the reason, if you try to open an archive, standard shield scans it before it is opened.

My usual scans are Standard without archives, reason, because of the on-access protection of standard shield, scanning all created/modified files.



I do that scan weekly as part of my regular system maintenance and it takes just over 10 minutes for 5.5 GB of data.
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Re: Scan so low
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2005, 10:22:07 AM »
128MB of memory is not very much (and you didn't say anything about your CPU) - so if you have some big archives on your disk, it may really take some time to unpack.
(If you happen to have big archives in one place, you may want to exlude them from avast! scanning - add them to the list of exclusions).
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