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[ulsanchris]

Does the free home version of avast take forever to scan your computers for viruses? It taks a really really really long time for a scan to be completed on my computer. not sure the total length of time it takes but it is well over an hour. Is this normal. I don't have the most up to date version of it.

[mishlert]

The more "stuff" you have in your computer, the longer it takes.

[ulsanchris]

there is not much stuf on this computer and the amount of files it scans per second seems pretty slow.

IT seems to take avast a really long time to scan a computer. Much longer than norton. Is this normal for avast.

[gaelforce]

Check the scan level setting.
Avast has three scan levels: quick, standard and deep scan. If you have it set on the latter of these it wil take an absolute eternity.
That might be the source of your problem.

[ulsanchris]

thanks I will chech that out.

any other thoughts.


Are you happy with avast?

[blunder1983]

I'm super happy, it auto updates and i've been running it for 2months with 0 problems. My laptops speed has tripled since i made the switch from norton.

AND its free

[Derrek]

Yes, if you do deep scan, it will take a long time. Mine takes about 6 to 8 hours on deep scan overnight. Maybe 15 to 30 minutes on the quickest scan.

Do at least the medium scan. I don't think the quick scan catches much.

I'm very happy. The only gripe I have with it is that there are a few trojans it has found that it doesn't seem to be able to delete easily. Sometimes I just have to put them in the virus chest (I'm talking about a work computer, here). I think there must be another program that keeps creating the trojan over and over again or something. But that's just on one computer. It seems to get it on reboot, so I suppose it doesn't matter a lot. I just like to know the virus is DEAD when I delete it. When I re-scan after the reboot, it's taken care of.

Another small thing is that the web page scanner sometimes finds stuff (if you visit a "crack" password site, for example) and keeps beeping at me, "There's a virus on your computer!" I haven't actually installed or downloaded anything -- what's really happening is that I will get a virus if I accept the bad file, but it doesn't specify that. It just says, "WARNING! There is a virus on your computer!" even though it's not truly infected yet.

[keithinkorea]

I use avast and it is great. It's free updates itself and keeps my computer very healthy indeed. Not had any problems with it at all.

The deepscan thing is probably the issue. Every so often I just run a 'bootscan' overnight and that does the trick. With a good firewall and avast running in the background you can even visit nasty hacking-cracking sites and be safe as houses.

Just have it running in the background and if you have a reasonably up to date computer it has little affect on the performance and keeps you safe from nasties.

[ulsanchris]

I have the on access scanner. I can't find where to change the scans.
I see where it says sensitivity, and it has normal high custom. I haven't found deep scan or quick scan. or anythiing like that.

[Derrek]