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    "Very slow disk scan. Perceptibly slowed down my system"

    April 18, 2012  |   By efrancos

    Pros

    Free!!
    Easy to install.
    Nice and clear user interface without "What do they mean by this?" kind of options.
    Excellent idea to include a full removal option ;-)

    Cons

    It just wouldn't finish scanning my 500Gb 12 million files drive, even after adding the exclusions they suggested. I left it working the whole night and by 8am there were still more that 9 millions files to go. I planned to do a full disk scan once a week but it turned out that would be impossible.
    I tried using the custom scans to limit the number of files to about 3 million, still toooooo slow.
    I finally gave up disk scans but decided to leave it running in the background. While it is "silent" I noticed a real perceptible slowdown of my system, too bad.

    Summary

    This was the first time I installed an antivirus system on my computer just to be on the safe side. Sadly, after a few days I finally gave up using it.
    I'll try other products and see if they do better... so I may come back to it.

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