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

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FireHammer

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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.:rolleyes::)
 

Gandalf_The_Grey

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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.:rolleyes::)
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... 🤔
 

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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.
 

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