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The avast scan depends on the computer, on my 2002 pentium 4 the deep scan only takes about 150 minutes on my other really cheap $199.00 2003 computer it takes about 5 hours.

I only do deep scans and I do them a lot, once you get in the habit it is no problem, when I am leaving the computer I flip on a scan based on what I am doing, if I’m going to work I do a avast scan, if I’m watching a DVD or going to the store I do a antispyware scan.

I guess with newer, better computers that you can do your scans while you are on the computer with out noticing it.

Thanks all you freepers responding to this.

I was up till about 2 a.m. downloading and trying several of the solutions suggested, and something apparently worked (knock on wood). I ran several scans.

I awoke this morning, started up my computer, and was able to get on here without any problem (knocking on wood again).

I can’t thank you all enough.

I ran a thorough scan on my newest desktop in 2 hours 11 minutes. But its a lot faster than my older desktop where I had tried it before. This one has a dual core 1800mHZ processor, 2 GB RAM, and 235 GB HD half full so that was pretty good on the scan time. On my old Presario 6000 that's about 7 years old it will take considerably longer I'd say. My wife usually uses it and it doesn't go on line that much except for MS updates and I'm a real strict on getting that done. I run full system scans on the spy ware and malware programs always though.

In 10 years I've had maybe 2-3 minor viruses and a lot of false hits especially when I had Trend Micro on this one. It had a conflict with one of my spy ware programs too IIRC. When the trial time was up I went to Avast.

Worse computers I saw was one three my cousin gave me because they wouldn't work anymore. They all had Blubster on them and about 180 Trojans. He didn't believe in anti-virus programs or updates. I got plenty of spare parts though :>}