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Corrine · « **Reply #345 on:** December 03, 2020, 08:53:24 PM »

Scanning for rootkits takes a very long time and most certainly isn't necessary with daily scans, although Metallica may have another reason for not including rootkit scans as regularly scheduled scans.

Metallica · « **Reply #346 on:** December 04, 2020, 07:58:23 AM »

Nope Corrine, you read my mind.

Under normal circumstances it's a waste of time to scan for rootkits. Although it doesn't hurt to check once in a while, maybe every month or so.
Or when you are experiencing strange behavior, but it's obvious you will want to use the full potential in such a case.

pastywhitegurl · « **Reply #347 on:** December 04, 2020, 04:04:54 PM »

Thanks for clearing that up. I had the root kit scan ticked to ON as part of my daily scans. They happen in the middle of the night, so I never noticed how long they take. Just ran a manual scan with root kit scan turned off and it completed the scan in 8min 47 seconds.

When you say it takes a long time, what more time does it normally add? Like hours? If its not something that can be predicted, then I guess I could turn it back on just to see if its still scanning when I start using the computer in the morning. I've never really checked to see.

Corrine · « **Reply #348 on:** December 04, 2020, 05:08:24 PM »

You can time it merely by selecting rootkit scan and doing a scan now.

pastywhitegurl · « **Reply #349 on:** December 04, 2020, 05:42:48 PM »

or that. ^_^

MikeW · « **Reply #350 on:** December 04, 2020, 07:25:04 PM »

I always scan with rootkits checked. It takes 5.42 min
Unchecked 1.42 min.
For me 4 mins is not important.

pastywhitegurl · « **Reply #351 on:** December 04, 2020, 10:58:06 PM »

OK, so ran the test with the root kit scan on. It took roughly twice the time.

17min 35 sec.

Without:
8 min 47 sec.

I think I'm going to leave it on.

Digerati · « **Reply #352 on:** December 09, 2020, 08:03:16 PM »

Time to get with the times and migrate to SSDs!

I've had Scan for Rootkits enabled for a long time and with an SSD scanning for rootkits takes a couple seconds. And entire threat scan, as seen in the log summary below, took just 2 minutes and 4 seconds.

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-Scan Summary-
Scan Type: Threat Scan
Scan Initiated By: Manual
Result: Completed
Objects Scanned: 311885
Threats Detected: 0
Threats Quarantined: 0
Time Elapsed: 2 min, 4 sec

-Scan Options-
Memory: Enabled
Startup: Enabled
Filesystem: Enabled
Archives: Enabled
Rootkits: Enabled
Heuristics: Enabled
PUP: Warn
PUM: Warn

-Scan Details-
Process: 0
(No malicious items detected)

Module: 0
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Key: 0
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Value: 0
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Data: 0
(No malicious items detected)

Data Stream: 0
(No malicious items detected)

Folder: 0
(No malicious items detected)

File: 0
(No malicious items detected)

Physical Sector: 0
(No malicious items detected)

WMI: 0
(No malicious items detected)

(end)

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