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? -- Regards, John Durham <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> ICQ number 571215671 Fax/Phone 64 4 5286786 PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Blog http://pc-tech-upper-hutt.blogspot.com/ Get a copy of my novel entitled "Return" at http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=1382737 Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied. -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 75 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message -- -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.
