Is there an anti-virus program that scans all drives at once?

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.

 

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.

 

And how would multiple HDs scanning stop that? If that's the route you're following to protect your information, you're on the wrong track.

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.

 

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.

 

no really....hence why in 10ish years i still haven't got one...its still stupid that it scans one drive at a time....on top of that its an absolute waste of my time as well. I don't want to have to deal with a stupid scan taking 10 hours.

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

 

Which is one of the reasons why I keep coming back to them again and again. It's a very efficient anti-virus program.

I don't know enough to know if it's possible to make a program that can scan in parallel. But I would guess if they could, someone most likely would?

Anyway, Norton does have a "quick scan" cursory capability that only takes a few minutes/seconds.

I'm not sure what you're asking but since viruses/malware are continuously being developed, no security suite is 100 % foolproof.

That means you're growing wiser Grasshopper!

 

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.