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Thread: Sybot Scan Time

  1. #11
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    Interesting, someone complaining that a scan is too quick, that's a new one!

    However, I wonder if by any chance they have finally found a way for the scan engines to use more than one processor core? If so, your processor utilization during the scan should exceed the normal 25% max, since I believe this would be typical on your system as it appears it's basically a quad core?

    If the reinstall doesn't change anything, take a look at this possibility and let us know.

    Bitman

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    Bitman

    Thank you for taking an interest in my problem.

    I opened the task manager and went to the resource monitor. Here is what I found:

    Before launching Spybot S&D, the CPU usage was 1 to 3% and memory usage was 1.52GB.

    After launching Spybot, the CPU usage was 3 to 27%, memory usage was 1.53GB, the average CPU was 15.23% and the percentage of memory used was 26 to 28%.

    Note: This was after reinstall and it still took less than 6 minutes.

    I hope this will answer your question.

    thanks and regards
    johnb

    PS: I would have put the results in a table for easier reading but this crappy editor wouldn't allow it.

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    johnb,

    I don't see anything in particular that seems abnormal in those numbers. I don't currently have a PC with that much processing power available, but I'd guess that is relatively normal in such a case.

    Looking back at your original post, I realize you weren't asking due to a change in scan time, but rather because some AV scans were much slower. This is because Spybot S&D isn't a file scanner, instead it searches the registry at high speed amd follows the registry entries down to the actual malware.

    Rob

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