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humptan
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Scan whole computer
      #438959 - Wed Sep 23 2009 11:14 PM

My daughter has the latest "free" version of AVG Anti-Virus installed on her laptop and i noticed that she had selected the option "scan the whole computer". It was still running the scan 2hours later. Is this normal?

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Re: Scan whole computer [Re: humptan]
      #438960 - Thu Sep 24 2009 12:56 AM

It depends what size the hard drive is and how much of it is being used.

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Re: Scan whole computer [Re: humptan]
      #439166 - Sun Sep 27 2009 08:26 PM

If it's anything like NIS and Kaspersky then 2 hours for a full scan is quite likely especially, as Bricat says, if there are a lot of files.

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Re: Scan whole computer [Re: The_Wanderer]
      #439180 - Mon Sep 28 2009 03:29 AM

I'm using NIS 2009 which takes around 1½ to 1¾ hours to scan my PC, only a little less than 2 hours. According to Norton, it scans about 550,000 files.

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