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Offline Para-Noid

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Is it me or...
« on: July 02, 2011, 05:55:39 PM »
Is it me, or are the scan speeds faster?
It seems as if avast! scans more MB/second than before.
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Re: Is it me or...
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2011, 06:08:46 PM »
It's not only you. ;)
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Re: Is it me or...
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2011, 06:10:17 PM »
What version of Avast are you speaking about? And what is the difference in speed?

I have Avast Free 6.0.1.1198 on Vista SP2. The quick scan has just checked 50 Gb of files for 12 minutes (70 Mb in a second).
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Re: Is it me or...
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2011, 06:14:56 PM »
Quote from: George Yves on July 02, 2011, 06:10:17 PM
1. What version of Avast are you speaking about?
2. And what is the difference in speed?

1. 6.0.1198
2. http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=80507.msg659411#msg659411
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Re: Is it me or...
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2011, 06:18:55 PM »
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Re: Is it me or...
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2011, 06:23:28 PM »
Quote from: George Yves on July 02, 2011, 06:18:55 PM
Quote from: Asyn on July 02, 2011, 06:14:56 PM
2. http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=80507.msg659411#msg659411
So, now Avast doesn't check video files, does it?

Yep. But consider:

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Since all of this logic is updated with the VPS, we can switch it on anytime if needed (for example if some very bad exploit gets discovered).
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Re: Is it me or...
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2011, 06:30:15 PM »
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Since all of this logic is updated with the VPS, we can switch it on anytime if needed (for example if some very bad exploit gets discovered).
I think it's not enough. To my mind it would be beter if Avast add a "Deep Scan" with checking video to usual Quick and Full Scans.
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Re: Is it me or...
« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2011, 06:42:03 PM »
Quote from: George Yves on July 02, 2011, 06:10:17 PM
What version of Avast are you speaking about? And what is the difference in speed?


I have 6.0.1198 on a Windows 7 x64 and the speeds are faster.
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Re: Is it me or...
« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2011, 06:47:37 PM »
The performance increase was put out through the vps updates to improve the scanning engine so we all get the improvement, not just the beta.
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Re: Is it me or...
« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2011, 06:51:38 PM »
If you don't feel it is enough, then use a custom scan and bump up the volume.

I honestly haven't seen any appreciable/noticeable difference from the last pre-release version. But I don't have large media stores and I don't have a lot of data on my system. Quick scan just took 3.00 minutes for only 4.9GB and if anything that is much slower that with the last 6.0.1125/1184 builds. But it is hard to say as I don't know if on the new program update any persistent cache is rebuilt.

Running the Quick scan right away does make a difference, 2:18 minutes for 4.9GB. Which is pretty much back where the previous builds were.
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Re: Is it me or...
« Reply #10 on: July 02, 2011, 09:24:42 PM »
no video on C: here so that won't make any difference (for the quick scan). Anyway I had no idea that videos were skipped now in preset scans... it's been a while since I don't pay much attention to scheduled scans, they just run in the background. Okay good to know anyway.
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