bcastner
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Re: So how fast should a malware scanner be????
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Name Game
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I guess all good AV test organizations have some criteria for what time is fast or acceptable...but I think more important is what AV is efficient..which would take in many factors..
AV-Testing Done Right
Reviewing antivirus software should be much more than loading it onto the system and running a few performance tests. While it's always nice to read about who has the fastest scan speed, at the end of the day the performance that really matters is its detection. If the product can't prove itself against modern day cyberthreats, no matter what features it has it won't do the job of properly securing your PC.
»antivirus.about.com/library/week···801a.htm
As one vendor so aptly puts it..
Efficient scanning speed
The scanning speed of the anti-virus is often the main reason for a user to choose one or another anti-virus program. But high scanning speed can be achieved by different ways. Sometimes, to increase the speed of the scanner av-vendors exclude from the scanning such important object as archives, mail bases, etc. Some often disable the heuristic analyzer, which also decreases the detection level of unknown threats. In the result, higher than with the competitor programs scanning speed is achieved on the account of the decrease of the protection level, but users impressed with the blazing speed of the anti-virus are seldom told about it. Sometimes, to increase the scanning speed some av-developers add the option, which allows to specify the areas of the drive which will be controlled by anti-virus monitor. It is done to increase the processing speed in programs which consume too many computer resources, when the hard drives are scanned and reduce resources consumption of their monitors at the cost of the lower protection level.
Developers of Dr.Web believe, that the idea of "selective" protection is defective, as users are offered to protect just part, instead of the whole system.
It is most important to combine high scanning speed with the efficient detection level. And this task is fulfilled by Dr.Web developers in new version in which scan speed is increased by 30%.
»info.drweb.com/show/3161
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dannyboy 950
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| We see many posts of comparisons of one product over one another for speed and other criteria.
So how much time do most of you think it should take a scanner to run on say 21 Gigs or so of data?
Mine with 21G of a 80 Gig drive an average 2.5 or better CPU
takes about 2 hrs. Doesn't seem to matter which Av or AT I use or if it is resident or online. |
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