MSE 2 Final Released!

profdlp · 21 Dec 2010

sygnus21 said:

...One of the things I do hope they fixed is the long "Full" scan times, usually around 4 hours!...

Whoa! Mine usually takes about an hour. That's with an 80GB SSD and two 1TB drives, all about 60% full.

noobvious · 21 Dec 2010

sygnus21 said:

Anak said:

sygnus21

The only time MSEv1 upgraded for me was for the virus engine, at that time the program did turn orange.

Yes, the distinction has to be made between Upgrading and Updating, that why I put the first quote in there.

But as human nature has as always. Displays a lack of patience, and doesn't want to wait to be spoon-fed by anybody let alone MS, luckily one can go and download it for themselves.

Thanks for your clarification.

You point is well taken. Mines was to point out my experiences and the inconsistancies I've seen with upgrades. Millage may vary.

All good :)

One of the things I do hope they fixed is the long "Full" scan times, usually around 4 hours! I'll have to do a full scan when I'm finished with my projects to see. Will post results later.

Peace

Holy crap! I think mine generally takes from 1 to 1.5 hours.

fseal · 21 Dec 2010

Full scan on my machine has always taken about 2 hours...

sygnus21 · 21 Dec 2010

Thus far two systems with multiple drives avaraged that. My old system has 1 500GB, and 1 320 and it took about 3 hours for a full scan.

This system has a 1TB, 1 750, and 1 500 GB hard drives and thus far after 40+ minutes.....

MSE 2 Final Released!-current-mse-scan.jpg

I'm not the only one who complained about this in the past so.....

So I did a full scan. That took over eight hours. I don’t know exactly how long it took, I finally had to give up and leave it running. MSE doesn’t report how long it took to do a scan, it only reports what it found. (I suspect the total run was around ten or eleven hours. MSE reports that a full scan can take up to an hour.)

SecuriTeam Blogs » Microsoft Security Essentials review

This one too.... MSE full scan

In fact one of my very first posts here was about the long full scan times.... Microsoft Security Essentials and Windows 7

Anyways I'll let it run and see where we end up before cancelling it.

Oh... yeah I see the possible infection I have - not worried about it at the moment becaue I'm sure I know what it is :)

profdlp · 21 Dec 2010

I wonder if the scan time is a factor of quantity of RAM and/or CPU power?

sygnus21 · 21 Dec 2010

profdlp said:

I wonder if the scan time is a factor of quantity of RAM and/or CPU power?

If that were the case my scan times would be flying by. See system spec

Any rate, even 1 gig of RAM shouldn't take that long!

profdlp · 21 Dec 2010

sygnus21 said:

profdlp said:

I wonder if the scan time is a factor of quantity of RAM and/or CPU power?

If that were the case my scan times would be flying by. See system spec

Any rate, even 1 gig of RAM shouldn't take that long!

Our systems are nearly identical... no idea what causes the difference.

sygnus21 · 21 Dec 2010

Well I've got 10 partitions spanning 3 hard drives. My 1TB has drive has 3 partitions including the OS. My 750 has 3 partitions, and my 500 has 4 partitions.

5 partitions are above 50% full, including the OS, the other 5 are no less than 64% free space.

Anyways current progress.....

MSE 2 Final Released!-mse-scan-progress.jpg

Time: 2:45:51 and counting....

ignatzatsonic · 21 Dec 2010

I just did a total scan---887,000 items in 90 minutes.

Total space occupied is 1.05 gigs across 3 partitions.

I was using the PC lightly the entire time.

Core 2 Duo 6600 with 4 gigs of RAM--a very ordinary PC by today's standards.

This is with the upgrade to version 2.

profdlp · 21 Dec 2010

sygnus21 said:

Well I've got 10 partitions spanning 3 hard drives...

...Time: 2:45:51 and counting....

Maybe having more partitions has something to do with it. I have just one partition on each of the three drives.

Anyone else with slow scans have lots and lots of partitions?

Since we're on the subject, how many of you with slower scan speeds have lots of big files? Or are they mostly LOTS of smaller files? I have tons (20,000+) of mp3s. Perhaps file type has something to do with it.