what to scan

[terry712]

i have setup a task to run daily to scan all drives on the pc
this seems to kick s*** out of the pc's
all xp - some sp1 and some sp2
it's set to scan all files

what are peoples preference
do they exclude files
do they adjust the cpu utilisation box
do they just scan default files daily and then all weekly or such or ?
on access is enabled

 

[NickFerrar]

We don't do forced scans, just rely on the On-Access scanner, even that generates plenty of performance-related complaints from our users.

 

[cmintwood]

Terry, you really are talking about a trade off with your problem. And the over all performance depends more on what hardware resources are avaialable and what the machine are in the process of crunching when the scan kicks off.

The trade off is with the processor utilization, the lower you set the threshold, the longer (in time) it will take the machine to perform the scan. If the scan is really effecting the performance, you might try adjusting the time of day the scan occur rather than scaling back the amount of things scanned. The more you leave un-scanned the more room for vulnerability.

If you are managing your environment with ePO and running the On-Access scanner always, you really only need to do an On-Demand scan once a month.

Hope this helps.