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Old 04-08-2008   #8 (permalink)
Bob


 
 

Re: Discerning Multiple Email Accounts


Re: "I'm afraid of the time commitment"
What time commitment? You don't need to watch it scan.

I don't understand why scanning 700 GB would take 13 hours. I have 820 GB
and it takes about 1 hour with AVG.
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"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?
>>
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