I would set it up to scan one drive at a time overnight. Do this one time
through. Then make sure that you have real time scanning going on in the
background as well as be very careful of what websites you go to (i.e.
practice safe hex) and you won't need to scan your hard drive every day.
"AndyTampa" <AndyTampa@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Apparently, after uninstalling the AVG and the McAfee (both of which I had
> already disabled) and left the Kaspersky, the problem resolved itself. I
> have yet to run a complete system scan though. I'm afraid of the time
> commitment.
>
> To answer your question, Bob, it's a refurbished Gateway that I got from
> CompUSA after they re-opened. It comes with a 500GB hard drive and I had
> a
> 200GB hard drive from my other machine whose motherboard died.
> (Apparently,
> kitty litter dust isn't good for the fans. Who knew?) I have another
> 160GB
> drive that I've set up as an external drive, but that wasn't even included
> in
> the 13 hour scan.
>
> "Bob" wrote:
> Quote:
>> If needed you can probably use Task Scheduler to customize the frequency
>> of
>> AVG Free scans.
>>
>> I'm curious, what kind of machine takes 13 hours a day to scan?
>>
>