slow scan

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Hi,

My weekly scan with Symantec's Norton Antivirus 2002 has suddenly become
very slow. It used to take 40 minutes or so, now it's over 5 hours and
still not finished. I use Windows XP on a 2.4 GHz computer.

Anybody any idea what could be the matter?

Tim
 
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Hi,

My weekly scan with Symantec's Norton Antivirus 2002 has suddenly
become very slow. It used to take 40 minutes or so, now it's over 5
hours and still not finished. I use Windows XP on a 2.4 GHz computer.

Anybody any idea what could be the matter?
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Something else may be running (use task manager to see who is using the
CPU &/or IO capacity) .. virus scanning is a low priority task, and many
other things will 'bump' the scanner (even most viruses and spyware.
8>.)

If that isn't it, then you may have a hardware problem - disk drives
reverting to PIO mode (instead of DMA-whatever) are a favourite. You
should be able to see that if you examine the disk controller entries in
device manager - primary/secondary EIDE controller channels, advanced
settings tab, make sure 'current mode' is some form of DMA - higher the
better. Be surprised if you hadn't noticed that in other use though.
 
Defrag your hard disk.

Dave



| Hi,
|
| My weekly scan with Symantec's Norton Antivirus 2002 has suddenly become
| very slow. It used to take 40 minutes or so, now it's over 5 hours and
| still not finished. I use Windows XP on a 2.4 GHz computer.
|
| Anybody any idea what could be the matter?
|
| Tim
|
 
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