Quad supported applications

[Thor.]

Hello i was wondering is there any good virus scanners that are quad supported. That takes full advantage of all 4 cores.

 

I just need a good standalone virus scanner that i can run independently without it running in the background. Needs something reliable but small.

 

I have kaspersky but its not dual core optimized. It only scans with a single core.

Any idea's

 

So i could do a quick scan. Kaspersky takes a good 6 hours to complete a full scan o_O , but it is very reliable. It finds and removes pretty much anything.

[Vagrant0]

I think Avast might, since I recall it doing quick scans, but isn't something stand-alone, and isn't particularly great. Personally, I use either selective scans with Kaspersky or full scans with malwarebytes to check out most of the suspicious stuff I come across, and those scans don't seem to take long and pick up on most threats.

 

One thing you can do to make a virus scanner move a bit faster is to take excess files, like documents, images, video, ect. which you don't regularly use and aren't likely ever to edit, and set them as read-only files. Then move all of these read-only files to a read-only folder tree, and have this folder tree excluded from weekly/bi-weekly scans, but still passively scanned on access, and included in a monthly scan. It's not perfect, but can speed up regular scans by a few hours depending on how much of your harddrive is storing things which you never edit. There are still some viruses which can eventually embed themselves in these read-only files, but as far as I know, it's rare since the threat would usually be detected before that point, or has to be something that the user either wants or is too blind to notice.

 

The advantage of having a scan only run on 1 core however is that you can do a full-scan while you're browsing the internet or doing other things which aren't particularly demanding. If you feel you have a specific threat and it's time sensitive, a more selective deep scan limited to your system folder, downloads location, temp directory, internet cache is usually fast enough to catch things, and can be followed up by a full scan just to make sure.

 

Ultimately though, you should just know your computer. If things are behaving unusually, it's usually a sign that either hardware is failing, or something has slipped by initial scans.

Edited April 25, 2010 by Vagrant0

[Thor.]

Well i have been doing regular maintenance of my pc at least every 2 weeks to be safe. Even on win7 you get the odd virus once in awhile, no where near as much on xp though.

 

I was wanting to know if there was a quicker solution that's all, thanks for your reply.

 

My hardware seems to running ok, i have alot of files stored on my 750gb drive, manly mods though lol. So it takes extra long to scan that drive. Anyways all seems to be good here :thumbsup: .

[Vagrant0]

Well i have been doing regular maintenance of my pc at least every 2 weeks to be safe. Even on win7 you get the odd virus once in awhile, no where near as much on xp though.

Give it time... they're still figuring things out and looking for loopholes. More than 60% of PCs using windows use XP anyway, so this trend is likely to remain until people are forced to upgrade in order to make use of applications with that god-awful waste of RAM that is the ribbon interface that MS is pushing.

[Thor.]

Well i have been doing regular maintenance of my pc at least every 2 weeks to be safe. Even on win7 you get the odd virus once in awhile, no where near as much on xp though.

Give it time... they're still figuring things out and looking for loopholes. More than 60% of PCs using windows use XP anyway, so this trend is likely to remain until people are forced to upgrade in order to make use of applications with that god-awful waste of RAM that is the ribbon interface that MS is pushing.

 

 

Hmm are you talking about win7 or vista, i know vista is a ram hog, but windows seven is amazing with ram. It'll only use 500mb if you're not running anything in the background.

[Vagrant0]

Well i have been doing regular maintenance of my pc at least every 2 weeks to be safe. Even on win7 you get the odd virus once in awhile, no where near as much on xp though.

Give it time... they're still figuring things out and looking for loopholes. More than 60% of PCs using windows use XP anyway, so this trend is likely to remain until people are forced to upgrade in order to make use of applications with that god-awful waste of RAM that is the ribbon interface that MS is pushing.

Hmm are you talking about win7 or vista, i know vista is a ram hog, but windows seven is amazing with ram. It'll only use 500mb if you're not running anything in the background.

The problem isn't windows 7, just the most recent turn that many windows based software has taken in relation to their GUI and function setups. Gone is the day of neat, compact toolbars where you could use any tool you wanted and even customize them, and now you're stuck with a "smart" interface that decides what tools to display based on what you're doing. It's this little toolbar which is a serious waste of memory and processing since it's constantly checking behavior to determine context. More recent versions of MS office applications have it, and unfortunately Autodesk seems to have implemented it in several of their programs. It's not really relevant here, but it's my current gripe.