Anthony A Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Recently installed Avir AntiVir on a machine that had AVG AV 7.5. The scan times are much faster with Avira. So much so I am wondering if something is wrong. Is there any one else that has tried both that can comment on the speed of the scan compared to each other? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 I haven't compared them, but today it took AVG 7.5 over 6 hours to do a thorough scan my PC. It used to take 90 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony A Posted June 9, 2008 Author Share Posted June 9, 2008 I haven't compared them, but today it took AVG 7.5 over 6 hours to do a thorough scan my PC. It used to take 90 minutes. It took Antivir 9 min to scan my entire machine. I remember AVG taking twice as long. Did you recently reinstall AVG 7.5? If you did on the first run after install you get the option of setting the scan priority. If you didn't set it to high than you will get really long scan times. Problem is you can only set this setting on the first run after a clean install. It's a limitation of the free version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 I didn't set it to a higher priority. Things run slow enough with AVG running at 'normal'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted June 9, 2008 Moderators Share Posted June 9, 2008 AVG 7.5 would scan my system in 36 minutes, this is with it reconfigured to scan all files, and with scanning set to the higher priority. AVG 8.0 would take about 55 minutes, this is with the pre-configured default settings. AntiVir 8.0 takes 27 minutes, this is with it reconfigured to scan all files, and with scanning set to the higher priority, and with some exclusions such as the MS Office CAB files. Avast 4.8 takes 46 minutes, this is with the pre-configured default settings, and with some exclusions such as the MS Office CAB files. I don't think there's anything wrong with AntiVir having faster scan times, remember all av vendors have different scanning engines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony A Posted June 9, 2008 Author Share Posted June 9, 2008 AVG 7.5 would scan my system in 36 minutes, this is with it reconfigured to scan all files, and with scanning set to the higher priority. AVG 8.0 would take about 55 minutes, this is with the pre-configured default settings. AntiVir 8.0 takes 27 minutes, this is with it reconfigured to scan all files, and with scanning set to the higher priority, and with some exclusions such as the MS Office CAB files. Avast 4.8 takes 46 minutes, this is with the pre-configured default settings, and with some exclusions such as the MS Office CAB files. I don't think there's anything wrong with AntiVir having faster scan times, remember all av vendors have different scanning engines. OK thanks. It looks like AntiVir was the fastest by far of all the programs you used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted June 9, 2008 Moderators Share Posted June 9, 2008 It looks like AntiVir was the fastest by far of all the programs you used. Yeah, however it has the ability to have exclusions whereas AVG 7.5 doesn't, I don't know about AVG 8.0 having or not having exclusions because it couldn't stomach it long enough to dig through all of it. So without any exclusions I'd actually expect AntiVir on my system to take perhaps another 5 minutes for a full scan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeeCee Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Haven't scanned with a virus scanner for a long time. I know that i'm not infected. I just know. Path Copy TeraCopy Unlocker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony A Posted June 9, 2008 Author Share Posted June 9, 2008 Yeah, however it has the ability to have exclusions whereas AVG 7.5 doesn't, I don't know about AVG 8.0 having or not having exclusions because it couldn't stomach it long enough to dig through all of it. So without any exclusions I'd actually expect AntiVir on my system to take perhaps another 5 minutes for a full scan. I didn't set any exclusions for Antivir. Left it at default and medium priority. After the 9 min scan I thought this can't be right. So I changed the settings to scan "all files" and it only added about 30 seconds to the scan and a couple hundred more files. If I set it to high priority it would probably only take a few min. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony A Posted June 9, 2008 Author Share Posted June 9, 2008 Haven't scanned with a virus scanner for a long time. I know that i'm not infected. I just know. I usually only scan monthly but since AntiVir was a new install I wanted to test it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davey Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Haven't scanned with a virus scanner for a long time. I know that i'm not infected. I just know. Hi CeeCee, Was it you that did a beta test on Windows Defender ? davey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommyk Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 It took Antivir 9 min to scan my entire machine. I remember AVG taking twice as long. Did you recently reinstall AVG 7.5? If you did on the first run after install you get the option of setting the scan priority. If you didn't set it to high than you will get really long scan times. Problem is you can only set this setting on the first run after a clean install. It's a limitation of the free version. Does Avast scan e-mails also? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony A Posted June 9, 2008 Author Share Posted June 9, 2008 Does Avast scan e-mails also? Avast has an email scanner Avira AntiVir does not in the free version. If you open an infected email the Guard still protects you there just is no scanning of the email as it's downloaded from the server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeeCee Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Hi CeeCee,Was it you that did a beta test on Windows Defender ? davey Nope. Path Copy TeraCopy Unlocker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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