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I am currently "mainly" using an 6 year old PC for my day to day activities.
It functions great for it's age, especially so since I changed the old graphics card that died recently.
And so though I stopped using it for certain activities, now I am using it mainly for *khm* playing games *khm*.
Anyway, just the other day I did a "favor" to pass some files from a pc on to another, and due to a memmory shorthage on my USB I had to pass it onto my PC, however when I did I noticed an autorun file, so I immidietly scanned the USB and it turned out it had a worm.
I was glad Windows defender was smart enough to recognise it as such, however after that I wanted to do a full scan on my PC to check if the worm hid somewhere.
However little did I know that in fact...The scan is slow...
That is not to mention that I didn't expect it do be slow, but "any" worthwile antivirus would finish a full scan much faster then WDefender would.
It is using 100% of my CPU (that it can use ofc), and I am more then fine with that, (since it is a full scan).
However since it is using all those resources, I was expecting it to finish in 2-3 hours max.
The amount of memory it has to scan is somewhere around 750 GB, and I in previous full scan cases with namely Comodo antivirus the full scan lasted around 2 hours, so I am pretty sure it is not unreasonable to ask the same or something similar from WDefender?
As I am writing this the scan is still going and has been for the past 6 hours, and though it says it estimates to finish in 45 mins, I personally estimate it will finish in 3-6 hours.
I would be more then happy if the service provided matched the time consumption it does, but that seems highly unlikely. ;(
Thus I am left wondering: "Is it better to just look for a "better" antivirus, or stick to WDefender as this PC isn't that important to me anymore? Even though there are service executables that also eat RAM".
*sigh*
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It functions great for it's age, especially so since I changed the old graphics card that died recently.
And so though I stopped using it for certain activities, now I am using it mainly for *khm* playing games *khm*.
Anyway, just the other day I did a "favor" to pass some files from a pc on to another, and due to a memmory shorthage on my USB I had to pass it onto my PC, however when I did I noticed an autorun file, so I immidietly scanned the USB and it turned out it had a worm.
I was glad Windows defender was smart enough to recognise it as such, however after that I wanted to do a full scan on my PC to check if the worm hid somewhere.
However little did I know that in fact...The scan is slow...
That is not to mention that I didn't expect it do be slow, but "any" worthwile antivirus would finish a full scan much faster then WDefender would.
It is using 100% of my CPU (that it can use ofc), and I am more then fine with that, (since it is a full scan).
However since it is using all those resources, I was expecting it to finish in 2-3 hours max.
The amount of memory it has to scan is somewhere around 750 GB, and I in previous full scan cases with namely Comodo antivirus the full scan lasted around 2 hours, so I am pretty sure it is not unreasonable to ask the same or something similar from WDefender?
As I am writing this the scan is still going and has been for the past 6 hours, and though it says it estimates to finish in 45 mins, I personally estimate it will finish in 3-6 hours.
I would be more then happy if the service provided matched the time consumption it does, but that seems highly unlikely. ;(
Thus I am left wondering: "Is it better to just look for a "better" antivirus, or stick to WDefender as this PC isn't that important to me anymore? Even though there are service executables that also eat RAM".
*sigh*
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