How long does it take for a virus scan to complete on your pc?

[Regs]

Mine has been going on 12+ hours and it is starting to piss me off :frown:


I have 3 Hard drives:36Gig+40gig+80gig, I wonder if this is normal for it to take this long. Using Nortan 2003 .

 

[Mem]

On my 40GB HD(about 50% full) it takes about 20-25mins doing a deep scan(max strength)with my Trend Micro AV software.

 

[kt]

Full system scan on Norton AV on 2 x 40GB + 1 x 20GB drives with all the drives at least 80% filled, took me about 1 hour 45 minutes.

 

[rky60]

120G Drive about 15-25 minutes usin NAV, 40% of drive is used

 

[igowerf]

Originally posted by: Regs
Mine has been going on 12+ hours and it is starting to piss me off :frown:


I have 3 Hard drives:36Gig+40gig+80gig, I wonder if this is normal for it to take this long. Using Nortan 2003 .

Wow. That's insanely long. Do you have lots of compressed files? Norton seems to slow down on those for me.

 

[EeyoreX]

12 hours seems like there is another problem somewhere. I have 1x120GB (80% filled), 1x80GB (90% filled) and 1x60GB (5-10% filled - image backups) and I use NAV 2003, full total system scan including compressed files in about 1 hour 10 minutes.

\Dan

 

[Nohr]

AVG takes around 20 minutes to scan my mostly full 80GB drive (7200rpm, 8MB cache).

 

[jonmullen]

20-30 on 160GB NAV

 

[Dan]

12 hours? Something's not right.

I use NAV 2003 and it takes me 22 minutes to do a complete scan of 2 hard drives (100GB & 80GB WD SE's) that are approximately 55% full.

 

[Regs]

Ok, I did think something was wrong. It seems to get stuck on windows/////////drivers/cache . I'll try running again to see what folder it is stuck in. I would not be surprised if there was a warm on this thing disabling Norton.

 

[Kinesis]

Well you are not the only one. My NAV scan takes forever and a day. Or so it seems. About an hour or 2 at leats. I have an 80GB drive, and it gets stuck in both the driver cache and the temp_internet_files. Which I have deleted before starting, but something draws it in there.

Still NAV seems to be faster than McAfee. Or maybe it is just me.

 

[Nothinman]

Why waste time running a full scan? Just let the real-time scanner run and it should catch anything before you have a chance to save it anywhere.

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Why waste time running a full scan? Just let the real-time scanner run and it should catch anything before you have a chance to save it anywhere.

Auto protect is enabled, however I've ran my computer without anti- anything for the passed 8 months. Well I did run a anti-trojan program a month ago. It found 3 trojans. 2 were spy trojans looking for credit card #'s . Nasty.

 

[Cadaver]

Geez... what are you downloading??

 

[Kinesis]

Yeah, Gee Regs where are you downloading from?

Come to think of it....maybe I should run a trojan finder?