[pchelpers] Re: Questionable Windows Defender Results
- From: "George T. Cox" <georgetcox@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 18:21:31 -0400
On 5/10/2010 5:08 PM, John Durham wrote:
> On 6/05/2010 10:29 a.m., George T. Cox wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>> I just scanned my computer with Windows Defender. It took about four
>> hours to scan about 170,000 objects. Does that sound a little off to
>> anyone here? Shouldn't it have scanned more objects in a shorter period
>> of time? Other scanners I use scan upwards of a million objects in two
>> and a half hours. Is it even worth it to fool with Windows Defender?
>>
> I just tried much the same thing on my own PC and got the following results:
> Start time 8:48am
> Time elapsed 00:13:49
> Objects scanned: 128623
> Nothing unusual was detected.
>
> How fast is your CPU?
>
My CPU is 2.21 GHZ
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