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How Often Should Full Scans be run with Antivirus
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<blockquote data-quote="plat" data-source="post: 858145" data-attributes="member: 74969"><p>Yes, the SSD makes it, hands down. I should clarify: with i7 and SSD a full scan is ideally around half an hour IF machine is totally idle. When multitasking/gaming, the time balloons to over an hour on here. The scanner isn't optimized, it's inefficient and doesn't use multi-threading and if you deleted the caches, it's scanning the same <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite139" alt=":poop:" title="Poop :poop:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":poop:" /> all over again. Not beefing about the real time protection cuz I'm on it. Just the scanner, this is where the quick scan and third party tools shine. It's a waste of time and resources to run it at Full, even if you don't notice it's running in the background. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😒" title="Unamused face :unamused:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f612.png" data-shortname=":unamused:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="plat, post: 858145, member: 74969"] Yes, the SSD makes it, hands down. I should clarify: with i7 and SSD a full scan is ideally around half an hour IF machine is totally idle. When multitasking/gaming, the time balloons to over an hour on here. The scanner isn't optimized, it's inefficient and doesn't use multi-threading and if you deleted the caches, it's scanning the same :poop: all over again. Not beefing about the real time protection cuz I'm on it. Just the scanner, this is where the quick scan and third party tools shine. It's a waste of time and resources to run it at Full, even if you don't notice it's running in the background. 😒 [/QUOTE]
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