TSGL: AVG - full Scan too long

[Don Penlington]

Tilman wrote:
><<that full job had started to expand from about 3.5 h to about 13.5 lately>>


For what it's worth, mine scans at just over 1000 files a minute. So you 
can work it out.

If you sit and watch its progress, it lingers longer over executory files 
(for obvious reasons) so may you have added a lot of large .exe files lately?

If you care to sit there watching its progress info bar for 13.5 hours, you 
would be able to see what's holding it up pr where it's getting stuck.

My guess is that maybe there's a class of file or some unusual extensions 
that it doesn't quite know how to deal with, so maybe it runs its heuristic 
testing on those, which will take longer.

Try disabling the heuristic option and see if there's any difference.

Maybe memory is getting overwhelmed by that many files, and has reached the 
point where it's swapping in and out of virtual memory.

Or possibly something is cutting in while the scan is running (auto 
updates? Spy scans?) and interrupting the progress.

What happens if you run the scan in Safe Mode (I'm not sure if you can), 
making sure there's absolutely nothing else running in the background?

  Otherwise, open Task Manager and close everything non-essential down 
before scanning.

As a last resort, open Task Manager and close EVERYTHING DOWN, INCLUDING 
EXPLORER.  There are many "helpers" which can hook onto Explorer, and 
occasionally one of these, often invisible, can reduce performance 
something horrible if it goes wrong. I'm not sure just how you'd get AVG 
scan started without Explorer, though, as I've never had to try it. Maybe 
get the scan started, then pause it while you close Explorer and see what 
happens.

To restart Explorer, just bring up Task Manager again, click Run, and type 
Explorer.

For those who don't know, closing and re-opening Explorer can sometimes be 
a good way to clear a lockup.

Don Penlington


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