Is this 2 fast

Mitch656 · 01 Apr 2010

Avast 5 finshed a schulded scan in 31.35 and tested 143616 and 71.98GB

is that 2 fast?

Oh it was a full scan as well

alwinwinjoe · 01 Apr 2010

31.35 minutes with that much data? Now that's fast... Avast has always been a fast AV scanner...

Mitch656 · 01 Apr 2010

is that good or bad LOL?

SlackerITGuy · 01 Apr 2010

alwinwinjoe said:

31.35 minutes with that much data? Now that's fast... Avast has always been a fast AV scanner...

Not for me.

~40 min on a full system scan.

EDIT: BTW I used to get ~7 min with Avira.

tw33k · 01 Apr 2010

Mitch656 said:

is that good or bad LOL?

it's very good. avast! is a great free scanner. You have nothing to worry about

Mitch656 · 01 Apr 2010

did i make the right choose from switching from MSE?

yowanvista · 02 Apr 2010

Avast is lighter and uses less resources that MSE

tw33k · 02 Apr 2010

Mitch656 said:

did i make the right choose from switching from MSE?

In my opinion...yes!

malexous · 02 Apr 2010

alwinwinjoe said:

Avast has always been a fast AV scanner...

I have only used Avast! 5 Free briefly but it is not fast.

Mitch656 said:

did i make the right choose from switching from MSE?

It depends on the user what the right av program is but I also recommend Avast! over MSE.

Airbot · 02 Apr 2010

Mitch656 said:

Avast 5 finshed a schulded scan in 31.35 and tested 143616 and 71.98GB

is that 2 fast?

Oh it was a full scan as well

You can somewhat speed up the full scan if you enable the persistent cache.

Also speed kind of depends on your hardware. If you have say a corei7 oc'ed, and/or an ssd, a full scan would be that much more faster. Takes me about half that time with about the same amount of data scanned.