Advice Request How Often Do You Run A Full System Scan On Your System?

[FireHammer]

Hi everyone, the headline is my question, personally I have never ran a full system scan with BTS, a lot of quick scans(all clean) & I use my second opinion scanners a lot.
Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool & HitmanPro mostly.
The reason: it takes too long.

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Hi everyone, the headline is my question, personally I have never ran a full system scan with BTS, a lot of quick scans(all clean) & I use my second opinion scanners a lot.
Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool & HitmanPro mostly.
The reason: it takes too long.

I just one full scan after installing an av.
Once a month a I use a second opinion scanner.
You got to have some faith in your chosen av solution...

 

[SeriousHoax]

Never Specially if I'm using Windows Defender.
But I would recommend doing it after installing a third party AV. It helps them to settle.

 

[Back3]

My antivirus is running real time. Once a week I use second opinion scanners. They never find anything except false positives. If I had something serious, I would restore an image with Macrium.

 

[upnorth]

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