How many times do you runs your antivirus full scan each year?

How many times do you run your antivirus full scan each year?

  • 1 - 4

    Votes: 14 27.5%
  • 4 - 8

    Votes: 13 25.5%
  • 8 - 13

    Votes: 5 9.8%
  • 13 - 15

    Votes: 1 2.0%
  • 20+

    Votes: 11 21.6%
  • Never, i dont have/need an AV installed.

    Votes: 7 13.7%

  • Total voters
    51

jerzy601

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Jun 20, 2011
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Antivirus scans your computer does not wish for this time, I am of the scanners such as Mbam, Zemana Anti Malware and EEK, besides Antivirus itself from time to time he scans the computer once a month.
 

kev216

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Aug 6, 2014
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I do once in a month a full scan with my main AV only and every two months full scan with main AV and other tools like Mbam, hitman pro and herdprotect. Maybe a bit too much, but I swear on a clean system :)
 
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Solarlynx

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Apr 30, 2012
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I actually never do full scans and quick scans once in a while mostly with EEK.

If you have a resident AV then there's almost no need in files scan at all. Maybe WiFi scans of some usefulness.
 
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Stas

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Feb 21, 2015
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Once a month with Zemana AM scan time just under 2 min and MBAM threat scan time just under 7 min
 

jamescv7

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Mar 15, 2011
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For on demand scanners well less than 5 only just for verification purpose, but fully on Full Scan since my usual cycle is from school works, forum and watching videos on FB/Youtube.

Other than that, VM will be my testing environment which never encounter any problematic issues.
 

Piteko21

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Sep 13, 2014
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me, once a month I run 360 TS, Hitman pro or Malwarebytes free. Until now 0 threats detected.
Symantec endpoint take much time to do a full system scan :(
 
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Crystal_Lake_Camper

AVG does a deep scan of my system one time a week , just like zemana and mbam. I also run adwcleaner , jrt once a month! I am simply obsessed by sqeaky clean system! :p
 

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