Hi Jim

 

Welcome to the Community Forums.

 

Indeed the speed of scans when using WSA is one of the main things that new users pick up on.

 

The basic reasons are that WSA is only looking for active malware, i.e., the philosophy behind it is that iinactive malware is no threat so there is no need to scan every file or potential infector file/you just need to check what is active & running, etc. PLus the fact that WSA is based on whitelisting ratther than black listing (which more traditional AVs/ISs use) are the main reasons that WSA is so fast.

 

EDIT: I was looking for a previous thread (found it HERE) to suggest to you as a good refrerence if you are interested in reading up a little more on the above in detail.  Check out the 2nd post especially as it gives a good detail description of this.

 

Hope that helps?

 

Regards, Baldrick

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Anyone know what the scan time usually is?

 

 

(Note: Merged with earlier post of the same topic)

 

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Hi Ron (I think it is?)

 

It varies...shortest I have seen is barely a minute whilst the longest has been justbover 3 minutes. Why do you ask?

 

Regards, Baldrick

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