Recommended AV?

[froggyboy604]

It is unfortunate that spybot is still very slow after being release for many years longer than other antispyware.

[Skeithex]

anti spysweeper is just as slow, must be the deep scan both programs do.

[froggyboy604]

I think some deep scans scan inside zip compress folders which make scanning very slow.

[Skeithex]

Specially if they are password protected and the scan hangs up while waiting for password to get into the file.

[froggyboy604]

I always thought most deep scans skip files which are password protected since they don't have the passwords.

[Skeithex]

They do these days but some in the old days got hung up on that, bad programming at times.

[froggyboy604]

I guess people used to have fewer password protected folders in the past since most hard drives were only 3 GBs or less in the 1980s and 90s, so users may have the time to sit at their computer to enter passwords to scan password protected folders.