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    The new kaspersky antivirus takes alot of time to remove autorun virus

    Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by beige, Nov 2, 2009.

  1. beige

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    Did any one notice that , i receive alot of usb drives from friends that contain the auto run virus , kaspersky 2009 used to just delete them in under 10 sec, the new kaspersky program 2010 takes time to scan all the computer ( i think ) before removing the auto run virus , any work around ?
     
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    What about scanning the whole computer once?
    Have you done this once? May be the cause.

    On 7 and 2009 that sped up a lot of things including updates - not sure about virus removal.
     
    DetlevCM, Nov 2, 2009
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    Turn off autorun for external drives. Then you don't have to care if they have an autorun virus or not.

    See this thread for more info: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=430049

    EDIT: I suppose you still want to scan the other files before using them though... so I guess it's probably still an issue.
     
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    @DetlevCM no i didn't scan the computer , ill try that
    @swarmer i kinda like the autorun for my clean drives like my external hard and usb flash , mp3 player etc :D , so if i didn't find a solution for this problem ill use the older version of kaspersky
     
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    You like it - but do you need it?
    I can't think of anything that should auto run on an external drive - well, except maybe sometimes he CD drive if you instal lot's of things.
     
    DetlevCM, Nov 3, 2009
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    Just disable auto-running of programs that are actually on the drive. You can still have it run your music manager when you plug in an mp3 player, or have it open a window when you plug in a drive. Just turn off the auto-running of executables from the newly-plugged-in drive.
     
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    i c , so i can only disable the .exe from auto running, i think thats a fair solution , ill look for how to disable exe from auto running thanks ALL
     
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    @DetlevCM
    i like the open folder autorun not the exe i don't install alot of programs.
     
    beige, Nov 3, 2009
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    In Vista it's under Control Panel > Hardware & Sound > AutoPlay.
     
    swarmer, Nov 4, 2009
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