How have your security scan times improved with SSDs in your life?

[LOUISSSSS]

As of right now it takes me ~1hr-1.5hrs to do a full scan of MSE/SUPERantispyware/Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. What kind of times can i expect with an Intel SSD installed? Assume same amount of data on drive...

 

[n7]

I'm somewhat curious about this as i don't run such software.

 

[Rubycon]

38 seconds for MBAM quick scan 512GB volume with ~40GB of junk.

 

[shabby]

Took 20 minutes for mse to scan 450000 files(100gb) on my 160gb x25 g2.

 

[Emulex]

yeah this saves power since your machine can wake - scan- go to sleep compared to the hour and half it used to take.

 

[pcslookout]

I'm somewhat curious about this as i don't run such software.

Why don't you run such software?

 

[taltamir]

yeah this saves power since your machine can wake - scan- go to sleep compared to the hour and half it used to take.

if your computer is OFF, why does it need to scan?

 

[Nothinman]

if your computer is OFF, why does it need to scan?

So that you can have a scheduled scan wake the machine, run and go back to sleep while you're asleep?

 

[n7]

Why don't you run such software?

Don't need it?

It's pretty easy to avoid infections if you are careful.

Basically all infections are user-incurred these days, so if you know what to avoid, there's little necessity for anti-virus.

 

[Voo]

Well I'd say the best improvement is that compared to HDDs you can work perfectly well while the drive is being scanned - who cares how long it takes if you don't even notice that it's running?

 

[Thor86]

Don't need it?

It's pretty easy to avoid infections if you are careful.

Basically all infections are user-incurred these days, so if you know what to avoid, there's little necessity for anti-virus.

Also, there is a neat feature called "real-time" monitoring. I suppose scanning is only useful if you do not constantly update your definitions on an hourly/daily basis.

 

[taltamir]

there are non user based infections, they exploit security vulnerabilities in various software.
of course, thats what a quality AV solution like ESET is for.

 

[Rubycon]

Real time scanning takes too many resources.
I agree with n7 although many people continue to run wide open (scripts) and do careless things with their PC.

Here all the traffic is screened and the DNS server relays have a huge list of blocked hosts that get updated every minute so most of the stuff can't even be reached. (not to mention the web filter in general blocks so much stuff - sometimes things I want to go to and cannot!)

 

[Voo]

Here all the traffic is screened and the DNS server relays have a huge list of blocked hosts that get updated every minute so most of the stuff can't even be reached. (not to mention the web filter in general blocks so much stuff - sometimes things I want to go to and cannot!)

Maybe I overlook something, but why not just use a public DNS and a proxy? Or maybe try ICMP tunneling (ok that's an old trick, but hey^^)

If I think about it the only reason for a antivirus is that I have one out of habbit - the last "virus" it catched was more than a year ago and that was my printer driver..

 

[Rubycon]

Maybe I overlook something, but why not just use a public DNS and a proxy? Or maybe try ICMP tunneling (ok that's an old trick, but hey^^)

If I think about it the only reason for a antivirus is that I have one out of habbit - the last "virus" it catched was more than a year ago and that was my printer driver..

I have no control over the connection but that's what I'm told is going on. Using proxies or other DNS servers is not allowed nor possible.

 

[Voo]

I have no control over the connection but that's what I'm told is going on. Using proxies or other DNS servers is not allowed nor possible.

Well they can't block every proxy offerer, but I can understand why you don't want to try something like that.. and if they have something against Proxies chances are that they wouldn't like hacks like ICMP tunneling either

 

[Rubycon]

Well they can't block every proxy offerer, but I can understand why you don't want to try something like that.. and if they have something against Proxies chances are that they wouldn't like hacks like ICMP tunneling either

With a network that has the ability to allow me to read a post but not reply I don't mess with the borders if you catch my drift.

 

[HeXen]

MalwareBytes, full scan on my SSD took me 7 minutes and 25 seconds for roughly 16 gigs if that helps anyone.
To full scan my SSD plus my 1 terrabyte (500+gigs used) mechanical hd, took a total of 17 minutes, 48 seconds.

Don't need it?

It's pretty easy to avoid infections if you are careful.

Basically all infections are user-incurred these days, so if you know what to avoid, there's little necessity for anti-virus.

I got one from a flash advertisement about 5 months ago or so. drive by malware is pretty common, since not all AV can catch every malware out there including unkowns, its impossible or arrogant to say you cannot. I use ESET smart security, threatfire and Malwarebytes. I had no idea i had it until i ran a manual scan, research informed me it was a common flashware botnet or some such. The best AV only catches 98% of all test malware, the unknown malware catches are always unknown except for the very few that get uploaded for testing and confirmed as a new threat.

Flash malware last year infected a major Ad company which resulted in several well respected sites such as msnbc...etc,to infect all the users who visited.

point is, you cannot trust yourself anymore. Adblock and constant updates helps of course, but no gurantees as authors develop techniques not made public for months to sometimes years. Rootkits go back to 1998 and never publically known until 2005.

SOME BIG WEBSITES – including Digg, MSNBC and Newsweek – are being salted with malware-infected Adobe Flash banner ads that take over users.....

 

[Beautiful_Life]

Full scan does take less time now, but the best part is my computer is so responsive now that I don't mind leaving the real time scan on all the time.

 

[coolVariable]

Don't need it?

It's pretty easy to avoid infections if you are careful.

Basically all infections are user-incurred these days, so if you know what to avoid, there's little necessity for anti-virus.

With all that flash/java malware on websites nowadays or in PDFs (another reason why those 3 should DIE! DIE! DIE!) that sadly is not true anymore.

Even "respected" websites have malware nowadays (or at least trigger the MSE block).

 

[Nothinman]

With all that flash/java malware on websites nowadays or in PDFs (another reason why those 3 should DIE! DIE! DIE!) that sadly is not true anymore.

Even "respected" websites have malware nowadays (or at least trigger the MSE block).

I have yet to get anything with Win7 and no A/V...

 

[Voo]

With all that flash/java malware on websites nowadays or in PDFs (another reason why those 3 should DIE! DIE! DIE!) that sadly is not true anymore.

Even "respected" websites have malware nowadays (or at least trigger the MSE block).

Seems like I'm browsing the wrong websites.. never got any message from MSE so far - well noscript and adblock for unknown websites helps a good bit it seems.

 

[Emulex]

if you troll torrent sites even for legal torrents you'll get DEP errors with the latest *.plugins - these are ie8/win7 protected mode violations - wait? with the latest everything you shouldn't have scripts breaking out of their sandbox? you get the picture.

anyhoo - daily scan so when i wake up in the morning i never have to worry about having been infected for the past ?? days/weeks/months. force of habit - active memory scan and updates run isn't bad either for emerging threats.

 

[DominionSeraph]

I have yet to get anything with Win7 and no A/V...

And how would you know?

 

[Nothinman]

And how would you know?

I guess I can't say with 100% certainty, but then neither can people with A/V because none have 100% coverage.And since 99% of my browsing on that Win7 machine is to customer's Call Manager and Unity systems I think I'm ok. Virtually all of my "real" browsing happens on my Linux systems.