Thread: Avast home edition takes too long to scan

Dear Friends,

As I was told by a Gentleman in reply to one of my previous post regarding Anti-virus, I had downloaded and installed Avast Home Edition and have since had no problems of Anti-virus. I also keep it updated very often now.

But, nowadays, when I do scanning of both local disks; the Avast is taking too long to finish the process.

While trying a full scan, it almost hangs and shows just 1-2% as finished even after one hour of scanning attempt.

Then, trying a scan of local disks was attempted and though successfully done the process, it too took more than 1-1/2 hour to finish.

Kindly help me understand this issue and advise on any steps for improving this situation with Avast.

Best regards

ahmk

Yeah, now I remember.

It was Just4kix who suggested me for Avast and even offered me further assistance.

I do hope he would lend me a helping hand this time too.

ahmk

There are many reasons for slow virus scan. It might not be the fault of the Antivirus. Use Ccleaner to clean and use Defraggler or any Disk Defragmenter to check and defrag your system. Also use Disk Cleanup utility in Windows to clean up old files in the system. And try scanning again.

BTW. It was me who recommended Avast Home Edition to you. I only recommended it because I got good results from it than any other Antivirus I have used.

Bandwidth back to normal, wonderful!!!!!

Thanx Archer,

I do not keep my post history and that's why I could not remember you. Sorry for that.

Anyway, I have already got CCleaner and done cleaning many times. But, let me know whatelse I should do to get it faster by running CCleaner.

Defragmentation and all seem to take too long and I would like something which I can do with CCleaner to get Avast scanning faster.

Please advise.

Thanx again a lot

ahmk

Are you saying Avast virus scanning is slower than before ?

First thing is Avast virus scanning will take longer than many other antivirus softwares because it scans more deeper than the others.

You really don't need to scan for virus when using Avast, because it will automatically detect any virus in your system that could cause trouble. Even if you have an inactive virus in the system, when you try to access it Avast will warn you. But if you really want, you can do it when you are not using the system.

BTW.System maintenance is really troublesome but is important. De-fragmenting is also important as virus scanning.

Dear Archer,

please find attached screen image of netstat I took by closing all the running programs.

I keep the Avast update on, which only should be running while taking this netstat.

I am unable to make anything out of this image. So, please help me understand the problem and solve.

Great help indeed. It's very kind of you.

regards / ahmk

Does this mean anything is running in background?

I just want to know to stop such things using my bandwidth as my PC to PC voice chat with Skype not Yahoo (Yahoo works fine) thesedays takes more bandwidth, even higher than what it used to take during my initial couple of months.

Please help

ahmk

I can't help you with 'netstat'. I don't know anything about it. But do you have a Firewall software installed in the system ?

No firewall, i think

Why?

If you have a firewall software, it will block all unauthorized/unneeded incoming and outgoing connections. Or it will ask your permission before allowing that program to access internet. No program will be able to connect to internet without you knowing it.

yes avast takes long time to scan ,make sure ur not doing any multi tasking like listening to songs,watching a movie,or surfing/download

best way to increase the speed is having 1gb ram,

Dear Archer & Internet Guy

Excellent replies. Thanks very much for your kind efforts

Sure to be back to you in future too.

regards

ahmk