I have 2 internals, 1 external, and a SD card. The two internals are 320g a piece., external is 1TB, and SD is 16G. Oh and i am adding another 2 TB external.....this takes like a freakin day to scan all together. Is there an intelligent virus-scan that can scan all drives simultaneously? I remember the days when it was a cpu limitation but now its a hardrive limitation and scanning one drive at a time is ignorant.
EDIT:Honestly...if a virus ever got on my computer.....scanning almost 4 TB...i would be screwed. The virus would destroy my stuff and system way before a scan could ever finish. Someone could steal all my bank and brokerage accounts info way before anything was found. Now i have never gotten a virus in the 10ish years of computers....minus the one i gave myself to to test my anti-virus. I can't help myself I like to try everything and play around ^^ Burt seriously there has to be one that can do all drives at once.
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Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow
I would use Malwarebytes, select all and go take a nap and go watch a movie.
Half my computers don't have AV, the other half use MSE. -
can malwarebyte scan all drives at once? because i ahve used like 5 different anti virus programs on time and they all go c then d then e then f then g. I want/need one that can scan all drives at once.it's retarded to scan one at a time. there is no reason to do that.
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Your first and best malware defense is between your shoulders and cost nothing: You have to use good sense and not connect to anything you feel is unsafe. After that, back everything up. -
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The scanning engines of some newer antivirus suites are intelligent; as in, they will remember what was scanned and mark it as safe; it will only get scanned again if it's modified in some way. Norton is one example of a suite that does this.
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EDIT: that's cool i think. I just bought nortan for 3 pcs for 18 bucks from newegg but can't a virus say and make the file look like it hasn't changed? Would nortan skip it?
EDIT: I actually just started using virus scanners and firewalls in the last year or 2....never used them before...not on my direct computers. Just on my dad's. I was always to cheap and used trendmicro house call but it started to glitch out so i had to buy one. Though i did retry trendmicros housecall again and it worked like a champ. Just been lazy on installing nortan -
Anyway, Norton does have a "quick scan" cursory capability that only takes a few minutes/seconds.
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nah its more so because people are using my network and my computer and i dont trust them....its also because i use online banks and online broking. So i don't feel like someone stealing my info.
Is there an anti-virus program that scans all drives at once?
Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by DCMAKER, Dec 11, 2010.