How often do you run a Virus Scan

[MixedLogik]

I do mine every 2 days, what about you?

 

[spanky]

start-up objects at start and critical areas everyday

 

[Shane]

i used to run a virus scan every 2 or 3 days but tbh i just dont bother anymore lol.

i just make sure Nod antivirus is up todate and leave it be.

anyway its pretty good at picking up any nastys.

 

[Dilbert]

I do a virus scan whenever I feel like doing one so it could be every few days or it could be months apart before I do one but i keep avast updated. But I do spyware scans almost everyday.

 

[brian]

i do on some of my comps. i have one i mess up so bad i re-load the os every day.

 

[ETSA]

I run continuous scans, scans pretty much all outgoing and incoming processes and data over the net. As far as straight virus scans, only when something is suspected, otherwise it is always caught when downloaded or ran.

 

[hermeslyre]

Randomly. Every week, or every other week, it never picks up much.

 

[MixedLogik]

I run Spybot Search and Destroy every 2 days, and I clear my cookies and internet files too.

 

[wungoodshu]

My computer is set up to scan itself once a month. Does it automatically for me in the background, and I've had no problems yet, so I don't worry so much.

 

[OvenMaster]

When I had Norton AV, it was set to auto-scan every day. Never caught a thing. Now that I use Avast which is also kept up to date automatically, I scan everything manually once a week or so.

 

[patrickv]

never ran a scan , since NOD32 has proactive defense / scanning, i don't set a sechdele, i set everything in sight to DELETE, but since saturday i learned a huge lesson im gonna run it weekly or every 3 days

 

[Verve]

every couple months, Avast rings whenever anything happens so I don't really feel a need.

 

[nyhk]

I trust God, so I don't even have antivirus installed

 

[JamesBart]

once a month cos im lazy! nope its tru i can never be bothered but then i get a proper viruse and go ah come on! and then i basically scan

 

[Trizoy]

No antivirus, dont run a scans. Fix/scan only if there is something wrong.

 

[spanky]

Normally I never do virus scans. I just got Kaspersky because I really like the trail. It found 1 trojan in all the files I've collected over the ~ 1 year that I've had this computer.

 

[Geoff]

I never scan for viruses, I dont even have an AV program installed. I use FF, as well as using Ad-Aware for that pesky spyware.

The big reason though is because I usually reformat every month or so, lol

 

[The_Beast]

I don't even know

 

[b3rt_d4ni3l]

Set to run a complete scan on startup.
I turn on my comp everyday after work so I will do a scan.

 

[MixedLogik]

Yeah, I run a virus scan every otherday because I game alot so I can't afford to lose any performance due to virus lag or RAM usuage/CPU.