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I think newer CPUs, RAM, and SSD storage release in the future will make virus scanning faster.
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SSDs alone will certainly help, but AVs do get more resource intensive as time goes on.
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I heard there are cloud antivirus which uses the internet to scan for infected in realtime, and these online antivirus use less RAM and CPU resources.

I imagine when most people have fast and reliable broadband internet connections, many more antivirus will use an online server to scan for viruses on a user's PC in realtime.
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That sounds really bad and useless if you don't have internet or your modem/router ends up infected
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I think Immunet cloud antivirus also have a basic virus scanner which uses Clamwin/ClamAV free opensource virus definitions when your PC is offline.
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Must have some kind of offline scans if the PC can be scanned while not online?
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I think Immunet Cloud has a simple offline scanner which uses the ClamAV virus definition file, but you need to turn it ON.
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