Defender scan times

[Guest]

Hi

I've set up Defender to do a quick scan - it started at 18:00 hours and as
of 19:55 its still going strong! The original Microsoft Antispyware never
took this long to do a quick scan neither does ad-aware - Any ideas whay is
causing the delay?
1.8ghz Celeron processor
1gb Ram

 

[Guest]

actually i don't think that was a quic scan...i you select a full sacn or a
custom scan it takes hours t be completed....
the reason is the program execute a quick scan first an then the selected
sacan type... also it scan every single file from your computer... so the
more file you have it takes more time....and the reason of why the previous
ersion was so quick its because it only scaned the parts where theres a high
risk to infiltrate a spyware.

i really don't like this too... and i hope this could be handy to you

 

[Guest]

Hi
Thanks for your reply - at the top of defender it displayed "quick scan" but
as you say it was a full scan - I figured this after watching the screen for
a while (no social life me - lol!) - definately not what i wanted. Nor do i
like it telling me every couple of days that I should run a scan.

I preffered the original version.
Tom

 

[Pat Willener]

Why not schedule it to run when you don't use the computer?

 

[Guest]

At present I plan do use it on Friday's (overnight) but I'm puzzled why its
displaying quick scan when its doing something completely different.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I'm puzzled about that observation as well--a quickscan should be a
quickscan.

However--a quickscan does hit quite a bit of stuff. There's a good message
from Mike Treit in one of these groups describing the differences between a
quickscan and a full scan. He is quite convincing about the value of a
quickscan at determining whether or not you really have a spyware
problem--my bias was to go for a full scan for a proper reading, but it
appears that the quickscan should cover the ground for a current active
infection.

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