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I have AVG 8.0.169 installed (fee paying one) and it is scheduled to a full scan daily.

This starts at 11am and can take over 3 hours.

During this time my PC slows down considerably.

I don't leave my PC on 24 hours a day, so can't schedule the scan to take place when I'm in bed.

 

My question is, do I really need to scan my PC daily ?

 

AVG has loads of features that are supposed to stop nasty things getting into my PC from any source and that protection is "real time".

I tend to think that scan are more "after the event" protection.

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my computer defrags on schedule its called "defrag when idle" meaning it defrags when im not using it,

 

my virus scanner also has this option but i never use it i dont even setup scheduled scans for one reason, if the realtime virus protection never picked up the virus why would a scheduled scan be any different.

 

avg might have this "scan when idle" option which could be worth while, have a dig around and see

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I have AVG 8.0.169 installed (fee paying one) and it is scheduled to a full scan daily.

This starts at 11am and can take over 3 hours.

During this time my PC slows down considerably.

I don't leave my PC on 24 hours a day, so can't schedule the scan to take place when I'm in bed.

 

My question is, do I really need to scan my PC daily ?

 

AVG has loads of features that are supposed to stop nasty things getting into my PC from any source and that protection is "real time".

I tend to think that scan are more "after the event" protection.

 

Nearly everything that AVG has ever found have been items in the Temporary folder that would have been removed by IL SystemWiper, which is set to run at close down. I run a complete AVG scan about once a month and it never ever finds anything that counts as being more than an irritant.

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I have AVG 8.0.169 installed (fee paying one) and it is scheduled to a full scan daily.

This starts at 11am and can take over 3 hours.

During this time my PC slows down considerably.

I don't leave my PC on 24 hours a day, so can't schedule the scan to take place when I'm in bed.

 

My question is, do I really need to scan my PC daily ?

 

AVG has loads of features that are supposed to stop nasty things getting into my PC from any source and that protection is "real time".

I tend to think that scan are more "after the event" protection.

Once a week will do.

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I just binned AVG for this VERY reason!! The system resources it hogs are enormous! Whereas Nod 32 is VERY easy and doesn't let anything in in the first place so no need for a scan to catch anything it missed!

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  • 3 weeks later...

NOD32 isnt free though and lots of people are not willing to pay for it.

 

If you are finding AVG slowing your PC down then you presumably are still using a single core PC in a multi core world. If you wish to scan on a regular basis the best option would be to set it to a slow scan, this lowers the priority of the scan and although it takes even longer it will release resources to the processor for other uses. The other option is to set it to a fast scan so AVG has a high priority, tell it to shut down the PC when it has finished and toddle off to bed and leave it to its own devices.

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Whereas Nod 32 is VERY easy and doesn't let anything in the first place so no need for a scan to catch anything it missed!

 

This is terrible advice, NOD32 just like any other scanner can only stop the things it knows about, heuristics can only second guess. Although NOD32 is very good is most certainly is not fool proof.

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