Full-scan Question

[abrandt87]

I recently purchased the spyware with anti-virus since my computer has had come definite problems that free antivirus software simply wasn't helping. I was able to get rid of all my spyware, the intelliscan was fast and easy so I was pleased...

I had a full system scan set up to start today at 6:30AM... it is now nearly 3:30 PM and the scan is only 60% completed. Is it normal for it to take this long? From what I can see the scan is running fine but I don't remember a full system scan ever taking 9+ hours.

I saw a post before about someone's virus scanner seeming to get stuck, and I'm not sure if that's the issue here or not. I just got onto the computer so I wasn't able to see if it got caught somewhere or not.

(I'll also note that during the course of typing this message it's started to behave a bit faster. From 3-3:30 it barely budged from 55% complete and now we're at 65%...)

[silvertones]

It depends on how much crap there is. Temp files etc.
Download CCleaner and run this first to clear out the junk and your Virus,Spyware scan will be much quicker.

[abrandt87]

I will give that a try, thanks a lot :)

[AChen]

Hi Abrandt87,

A 9+ hour scan is very long. We need to know if the scan is getting stuck on a particular file? Do you have many archive files such as (.zip, .chm, .jar, etc)?

Could you try running a full scan in safemode and see how long the scan takes?