Full scan. Sure... if you have a cpouple of weeks to spare

Help for Comodo AntiVirus
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Maybe I’m just in over my head here, but anyway… this is the situation:

After making a fresh install of XP I decided to try an alternative AV prog than my “standard” Symantec. A Full System Scan seemed like a good idea, emphasis on the past tense. After about 2 hours, 2.280 files are scanned. If I extrapolate thet over all my drives it will literally be weeks before it’s done.

So the question is: What am I doing wrong here? The Symantec full scan on the exact same config takes about 2 hours to complete. Now I’m not even halfway through disk 1 :slight_smile:

Cheers!

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CAVS scans 58,000 files in about 20 minutes on two pc’s I have it on.

Did CAVS complete the safelist database creation after re-boot?

Have you selected the incremental scan for safe files in advanced settings?

Also, make sure the box is not ticked for creation of troubleshoot log.

:SMLR

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It did complete the db creation. Otherwise I have done nothing but select the full scan since that was recommended. 2 hours and 23 minutes now and a whopping 2.824 files scanned… what’s wrong?

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Is there any other hard drive activity going on in the background? Is the hard drive running in PIO mode? Do you have the latest drivers for your disk controller installed?

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I had the same problem. CAVS is the absolute slowest scanning AV solution I have ever seen. It takes upwards of 10 hours to scan my system, when I’m used to seeing around an hour using any of the three on demand scanners I have at my disposal. (and yes, only one of them is set to actively scan my system. The others are just for a second opinion)

Yes, the DB did it’s thing. I had the incremental option checked, I even sent however many gigabytes of data from files it found that it was unaware of to Comodo for inspection and addition to the safelist.

I ended up having to uninstall the software because that is just an unreasonable amount of time for a scan of only 23GB of data, especially when the software brags about faster scans than ever.

AMD64 X2 Dual core 4200+, 2GB RAM, Win XP Media Center Edition SP2.

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Remember CAVS is currently a BETA so there will be issues with it. And I’m sure this slow scan issue will be fixed in CAVS final version :slight_smile: (R)

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I never had problems of time scanning with CAVS.

Anything, it seems me between more swift than I have ever experienced!!!

I believe that if there are these types of problems are had to other software installed on the computer that provoke interference to CAVS.

I cite a screenshot of how much employs CAVS to do a scanning on my computer: 47.875 files in alone 17 minutes!!!

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yeiazel is correct, there has to be some other process that is interfering with CAVS to cause this problem. Perhaps if you could post a screenshot listing your running processes whilst CAVS is scanning we may be able to figure out what is happening.

:SMLR

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I realize that CAVS is beta. I’m just reporting that I had the same issue with slow scanning. I’m going to wait for the next release to give it another try. Anybody have any idea when that may be?

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Hopefully the next beta will be released sometime this month - then it is a matter of ‘ironing out the wrinkles’ before final release. Hopefully this will not take too long.

:SMLR