i noticed a problem with avast yesterday, if i choose to scan any file using the right-click scanner, it will allways finish instantly ie; run time 0.00.00, this happens to small files less than 10MB and large files of many GB's in size
the only thing that does increase scan time is if there are lots of files in a folder i select to scan, ie; a folder with 100 10MB files will take much longer than a folder with 5 1GB files, which in turn would take longer than scanning a single 10GB file, this doesn't make sense and never used to be the case
this behavior also happens in the "scan computer/select folder to scan" option in the avast UI
i've already tried a repair install, but that didn't work, if anyone has any suggestions, i would appreciate the help
my setup:
32bit windows vista sp2
avast free antivirus ver. 6.0.1203
windows defender - on
UAC - on
malwarebytes free edition is also installed, but not actively running