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NAV Comprehensive vs Smartscan
Name: Steve Date: August 16, 2002 at 06:09:20 Pacific
Comment:
What are the relative advantages/disadvantages of using "Comprehensive file scanning" vs "Smartscan" when setting up NAV's Auto Protect???
I have a friend running W2K on an old P233 machine, and it runs very slow with Comprehensive turned on, and fairly faster with Smartscan...but he has been getting a lot of Sircam and Badtrans virus' lately, so if switching to "comprehensive" significantly lowers the protection, I don't want to do that...
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