Antispyware scan performance

[jird]

What do you think about the speed of Antispyware BETA? On my machine an
Antispyware “deep scan” takes about 10 times longer (23 minutes) as an
ad-aware “full scan” or a Spybot scan. Even a quickscan of Antispyware
is much slower as one done with the previously mentioned products.

Is this a configuration problem? What do you think about this?

 

[Andre Da Costa [494805]]

Its still in beta, so optimization is not priority or part of quality, its
execution and detection at this time. Maybe in a future update of the beta
you will some significant boost in performance. It also depends on the speed
of your hard disk too.

Andre

http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta

 

[Steve N.]

Its still in beta, so optimization is not priority or part of quality, its
execution and detection at this time. Maybe in a future update of the beta
you will some significant boost in performance. It also depends on the speed
of your hard disk too.

Andre

And how many files it has to scan.

Steve

 

[jird]

And how many files it has to scan.

Steve

Of course – the addressed results have been measured on exactly the same
machine with the same hard and software.

 

[Peter]

My experience (AMD 2400+) was that quick scan was 4:09
for 19K files, compared to about 3:20 for Spybot or Ad-
Aware. Full scan of C: took 2:30, for 18K files (faster?
fewer files??). Deep scan took 11:30 which was a little
faster than Ad-Aware full system scan.

My preference would be to run the memory test, then the
registry, before starting the file scan. If you abort in
file scan, you would have the registry done.
Workaround: you can do full scan on a tiny directory if
you want to get to the registry quickly.

 

[Peter]

-----Original Message-----

Deep scan took 11:30 which was a little
faster than Ad-Aware full system scan.

But Ad-Aware did scan for cookies, finding 120.