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General Category => Tech Clinic => Topic started by: Guest_stuartt_* on August 03, 2005, 01:18:44 AM

Title: AV scan
Post by: Guest_stuartt_* on August 03, 2005, 01:18:44 AM

I run Mc Afee AV scan on my workstation (XP pro) and normally it takes about 15-20 minutes ( i think)..anyways i certainly feel its taking a whole lot longer nowadays...like an hour or so. I havent installed anything new lately.What cud it be?

Title: AV scan
Post by: 117805sp on August 03, 2005, 01:29:43 AM

Hi Stuartt,

Have you looked, where the scan lags? A couple of general stuff to check would be if the system is infected by spyware or adware, hope you  have something installed for this. Is the system slow otherwise also?If yes, i think you should look at a disk clean up and defragment. Virus scans take longer of the HD is badly fragmented. Also how much RAM do you have?

Title: AV scan
Post by: jaguar on August 03, 2005, 11:47:54 AM

Hi
Yes, i'm a system administrator and i have experienced a similar
problem due to fragmented drives. Even workstations need to be
defragmented regularly to keep up their performance.