Norton Antivirus 2003 Incredibly Slow

[jim evans]

When I installed XP I bought the latest version of Norton Antivirus
(2003). It is MUCH slower than the earlier version (2000 I think).
The earlier one would scan my entire system in about an hour. This
one takes about 6-8 hours.

Just to be sure it wasn't installed wrong I tried it on an older AMD
system (Pentium II equivalent). It took 20 hours to complete the
scan.

Anyone else experiencing extremely long whole system scan times?

jim

[Sir_George]

jim,

Unless your hard drive is somewhere around 800 GB's, something is wrong. I'm
no fan of Norton software, but anything over an hour to scan 40 GB's is
extreme. Uninstall Norton and try a trial version of some competitor's AV
and compare the results.

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"jim evans" > wrote in message
...
> When I installed XP I bought the latest version of Norton Antivirus
> (2003). It is MUCH slower than the earlier version (2000 I think).
> The earlier one would scan my entire system in about an hour. This
> one takes about 6-8 hours.
>
> Just to be sure it wasn't installed wrong I tried it on an older AMD
> system (Pentium II equivalent). It took 20 hours to complete the
> scan.
>
> Anyone else experiencing extremely long whole system scan times?
>
> jim

[baker]

I have two 40 gig harddrives and it takes about 15 minutes to do both of
them using Nortons 2003. Of course, I keep my drives clean by removing
all .tmp files created when I use the net. I use Window Cleaner and
Ad-Aware also. You may not be doing this and have thousands of .tmp
files. Check your browsers for these files. :-)

[jim evans]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:50:59 GMT, baker > wrote:

>I have two 40 gig harddrives and it takes about 15 minutes to do both of
>them using Nortons 2003. Of course, I keep my drives clean by removing
>all .tmp files created when I use the net. I use Window Cleaner and
>Ad-Aware also. You may not be doing this and have thousands of .tmp
>files. Check your browsers for these files. :-)

If that's 80 gig of disk storage in 15 minutes that's remarkable. I
don't know which has the most influence on scan time -- total disk
space or total files.

My drive that takes 6+ hours to complete has 5-6 million files
comprising about 18 gig of storage.

After your comment I did a search on *.tmp files, and I don't have but
a few hundred, so that can't be the problem.

[johnf]

The Xp Generic Search Engine is pretty useless in its default mode.
You can do a *.tmp search & only find several.
Try downloading Agent Ransack, search for .tmp & see how many you find in
your Temporary Internet Files/Content.IE5 folders.

johnf

> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:50:59 GMT, baker > wrote:
>
>> I have two 40 gig harddrives and it takes about 15 minutes to do
>> both of them using Nortons 2003. Of course, I keep my drives clean
>> by removing all .tmp files created when I use the net. I use Window
>> Cleaner and Ad-Aware also. You may not be doing this and have
>> thousands of .tmp files. Check your browsers for these files. :-)
>
> If that's 80 gig of disk storage in 15 minutes that's remarkable. I
> don't know which has the most influence on scan time -- total disk
> space or total files.
>
> My drive that takes 6+ hours to complete has 5-6 million files
> comprising about 18 gig of storage.
>
> After your comment I did a search on *.tmp files, and I don't have but
> a few hundred, so that can't be the problem.

[jim evans]

Thanks for the suggestion. Agent Ransack search showed 187 .tmp
files. None in the Content.IE5 folders.

jim


On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 02:46:01 GMT, "johnf" >
wrote:

>The Xp Generic Search Engine is pretty useless in its default mode.
>You can do a *.tmp search & only find several.
>Try downloading Agent Ransack, search for .tmp & see how many you find in
>your Temporary Internet Files/Content.IE5 folders.
>
>johnf
>
>> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:50:59 GMT, baker > wrote:
>>
>>> I have two 40 gig harddrives and it takes about 15 minutes to do
>>> both of them using Nortons 2003. Of course, I keep my drives clean
>>> by removing all .tmp files created when I use the net. I use Window
>>> Cleaner and Ad-Aware also. You may not be doing this and have
>>> thousands of .tmp files. Check your browsers for these files. :-)
>>
>> If that's 80 gig of disk storage in 15 minutes that's remarkable. I
>> don't know which has the most influence on scan time -- total disk
>> space or total files.
>>
>> My drive that takes 6+ hours to complete has 5-6 million files
>> comprising about 18 gig of storage.
>>
>> After your comment I did a search on *.tmp files, and I don't have but
>> a few hundred, so that can't be the problem.
>
>

[johnf]

Unusual. Search for ie5, open the folder corresponding to your user name and
look in there.
You should find 4 folders, so have a look in them - they can all be deleted.
My current count after 10 mins surfing is 1,500+

Whether you delete them is up to you, my point being that Norton has to
spend more time searching those.

johnf

> Thanks for the suggestion. Agent Ransack search showed 187 .tmp
> files. None in the Content.IE5 folders.
>
> jim
>
>
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 02:46:01 GMT, "johnf" >
> wrote:
>
>> The Xp Generic Search Engine is pretty useless in its default mode.
>> You can do a *.tmp search & only find several.
>> Try downloading Agent Ransack, search for .tmp & see how many you
>> find in your Temporary Internet Files/Content.IE5 folders.
>>
>> johnf
>>
>>> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:50:59 GMT, baker > wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have two 40 gig harddrives and it takes about 15 minutes to do
>>>> both of them using Nortons 2003. Of course, I keep my drives clean
>>>> by removing all .tmp files created when I use the net. I use Window
>>>> Cleaner and Ad-Aware also. You may not be doing this and have
>>>> thousands of .tmp files. Check your browsers for these files. :-)
>>>
>>> If that's 80 gig of disk storage in 15 minutes that's remarkable. I
>>> don't know which has the most influence on scan time -- total disk
>>> space or total files.
>>>
>>> My drive that takes 6+ hours to complete has 5-6 million files
>>> comprising about 18 gig of storage.
>>>
>>> After your comment I did a search on *.tmp files, and I don't have
>>> but a few hundred, so that can't be the problem.

[jim evans]

I'd already done that. I have about 15 folders with that extension.
Some for the Admin, some for generic user and some for my user logon.
The only one that contains anything other than index files is my user
logon. It contains the expected IE cache -- about 30K .html, .jpg.
..gif files.

jim

On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 01:07:15 GMT, "johnf" >
wrote:

>Unusual. Search for ie5, open the folder corresponding to your user name and
>look in there.
>You should find 4 folders, so have a look in them - they can all be deleted.
>My current count after 10 mins surfing is 1,500+
>
>Whether you delete them is up to you, my point being that Norton has to
>spend more time searching those.
>
>johnf
>
>> Thanks for the suggestion. Agent Ransack search showed 187 .tmp
>> files. None in the Content.IE5 folders.
>>
>> jim
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 02:46:01 GMT, "johnf" >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The Xp Generic Search Engine is pretty useless in its default mode.
>>> You can do a *.tmp search & only find several.
>>> Try downloading Agent Ransack, search for .tmp & see how many you
>>> find in your Temporary Internet Files/Content.IE5 folders.
>>>
>>> johnf
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:50:59 GMT, baker > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have two 40 gig harddrives and it takes about 15 minutes to do
>>>>> both of them using Nortons 2003. Of course, I keep my drives clean
>>>>> by removing all .tmp files created when I use the net. I use Window
>>>>> Cleaner and Ad-Aware also. You may not be doing this and have
>>>>> thousands of .tmp files. Check your browsers for these files. :-)
>>>>
>>>> If that's 80 gig of disk storage in 15 minutes that's remarkable. I
>>>> don't know which has the most influence on scan time -- total disk
>>>> space or total files.
>>>>
>>>> My drive that takes 6+ hours to complete has 5-6 million files
>>>> comprising about 18 gig of storage.
>>>>
>>>> After your comment I did a search on *.tmp files, and I don't have
>>>> but a few hundred, so that can't be the problem.
>
>


jim

[Lester Stiefel]

Could someone please post the URL to agent ransack.

jim evans wrote:
> I'd already done that. I have about 15 folders with that extension.
> Some for the Admin, some for generic user and some for my user logon.
> The only one that contains anything other than index files is my user
> logon. It contains the expected IE cache -- about 30K .html, .jpg.
> .gif files.
>
> jim
>
> On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 01:07:15 GMT, "johnf" >
> wrote:
>
>
>>Unusual. Search for ie5, open the folder corresponding to your user name and
>>look in there.
>>You should find 4 folders, so have a look in them - they can all be deleted.
>>My current count after 10 mins surfing is 1,500+
>>
>>Whether you delete them is up to you, my point being that Norton has to
>>spend more time searching those.
>>
>>johnf
>>
>>
>>>Thanks for the suggestion. Agent Ransack search showed 187 .tmp
>>>files. None in the Content.IE5 folders.
>>>
>>>jim
>>>
>>>
>>>On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 02:46:01 GMT, "johnf" >
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>The Xp Generic Search Engine is pretty useless in its default mode.
>>>>You can do a *.tmp search & only find several.
>>>>Try downloading Agent Ransack, search for .tmp & see how many you
>>>>find in your Temporary Internet Files/Content.IE5 folders.
>>>>
>>>>johnf
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:50:59 GMT, baker > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>I have two 40 gig harddrives and it takes about 15 minutes to do
>>>>>>both of them using Nortons 2003. Of course, I keep my drives clean
>>>>>>by removing all .tmp files created when I use the net. I use Window
>>>>>>Cleaner and Ad-Aware also. You may not be doing this and have
>>>>>>thousands of .tmp files. Check your browsers for these files. :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>If that's 80 gig of disk storage in 15 minutes that's remarkable. I
>>>>>don't know which has the most influence on scan time -- total disk
>>>>>space or total files.
>>>>>
>>>>>My drive that takes 6+ hours to complete has 5-6 million files
>>>>>comprising about 18 gig of storage.
>>>>>
>>>>>After your comment I did a search on *.tmp files, and I don't have
>>>>>but a few hundred, so that can't be the problem.
>>
>>
>
>
> jim

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[jim evans]

On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 22:14:22 -0400, Lester Stiefel
> wrote:

> Could someone please post the URL to agent ransack.
Amazing thing that Google.

http://www.agentransack.com/default.aspx