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| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 323633 | 2005-02-10 18:00:00 | You can turn it off or alter the time in the scheduler found in the control center. | PaulD (232) | ||
| 323634 | 2005-02-10 20:04:00 | when I abort the test due to boredom. Why not hit the minus sign and let it run in the background? ;) | Scouse (83) | ||
| 323635 | 2005-02-10 20:04:00 | thanks, finally figured it out. If you go into scheduler and try to delete 'basic scan' it will tell you that you can't delete system settings and there doesn't appear to be any other options in scanning settings. You have to double click 'basic scan' line in the scheduled tests window to bring up a2nd window where you can disable daily scanning... Hope that helps anyone else trying to switch the damn thing off |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 323636 | 2005-02-10 21:30:00 | Hi Folks. Sorry about this, but why..... Hope that helps anyone else trying to switch the damn thing off. If you are a regular net user I would have thought that the dailycheck would be what you would want. I let it run daily. :cool: | Scouse (83) | ||
| 323637 | 2005-02-10 22:41:00 | Go to test center Schedular click on "test plan in basic mode" Then "Edit schedule" Take out the tick for testing every day and then you can test when you want to. |
jayess (7122) | ||
| 323638 | 2005-02-10 22:59:00 | If you are a regular net user I would have thought that the dailycheck would be what you would want. I let it run daily. That is probably the safest solution but in my view and experience the anti-virus program should detect viruses that come in pretty much immediately, or when they try to run. I am most likely not a good example to follow but I get my AV to scan when I remember - and that might be once a month or so. :p |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 323639 | 2005-02-10 23:30:00 | Hi again. Although I run AVG daily, I also run MS Antispyware, A Squared and Ad-Aware about once a week. I'm probably getting to be neurotic. A Squared is the only programme to find anything worth while in recent times. As with AVG, I simply let themn run in the background. MS Antispyware takes the longest, with this mornings run taking 47 minutes and 12 seconds - so it told me. :cool: | Scouse (83) | ||
| 323640 | 2005-02-10 23:41:00 | I am with FoxyMX on this one. If you update AVG regularly, just what are you going to find with the daily scan. Do it once, then after that, everything coming in is checked, so where are these nasties supposed to be coming from every day that you scan for? If they came in before the latest update, then they should be found if they try to run. But if they came in before the latest update, chances are high they have disabled your AV anyway, so they still would not be found. Spyware and adware are different, but I never find anything of concern being behind a firewalled router with them either. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 323641 | 2005-02-10 23:47:00 | I pretty much adhere to the same routine as Foxy, maybe once every two weeks I do a full blown deep scan using full heauristics (Nod32), otherwise it sits in the background and monitors emails and general activity . The AVG scan time looks pretty much on a par with the times Nod gets it done, not sure what AvG does as far as heauristics and compressed file scanning though which can slow things down considerably as per the Windows cab files mentioned . Hey Scouse, I see the MS beta has a vulnerability . Apparently a trojan turns it off warning messages and deletes files from the programme's folder . Then it gets on with pinching your banking info . Nice huh! |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 323642 | 2005-02-11 00:00:00 | While daily scans are generally unneeded but if your not doing them weekly or every two weeks then I would suggest people start doing so . As to "if the av is running what is a full scan going to do"? Well,identify and remove malicious code of course . One thing i see quite often is code sitting there unidentified and ignored by an anti-virus program (this applies to all Anti-virus programs) untill I do a full system scan with Adawere, as it trawls through the depths of the OS and scans the crap the AV will suddenly jumo into gear and tell the user (me) that it has discovered an infected file and do i want to remove it . . . . . But it only happens as the file/code whatever is accessed by the adawere remover . edit . AV on my laptop hasn't been updated in a month, Havent done a full system scan since installing AV7 . Muhahahahahaha . |
Metla (12) | ||
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