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Is it okay that a cloud based scanner is not fast? I am using comodo pro 10 right now. It seems really cool. The scanner is not really fast when you do a full scan. Can I just scan send it to the background and not worry about speed? I don't know if there is any advantages to having a scanner that is blazing fast like in Webroot or Malwarebytes. If there is no technical issue, I am going to use comodo for my 2 Linux installs in addition to Windows 10!
I know there have been security vulnerabilities I read about too that go on for quite some time and then are discovered. I don't think Linux is impervious but I am a bit paranoid.
almost all viruses that can run on linux would need root access
and unless you run AS root that is rather hard for a automated bot to do ( a human -- well no os will stand up)
even the CIA can not stop 100% of the crackers 100% of the time
-- added later
you must like banging your head on the desk
the tk motiff gui is junk
the terminal is much much much a better option
and WAY more useful
I guess. I mean there are things like escalation of privileges with buffer overflows that still apply.
That isn't really my question or issue though. I am more interested in finding out about if webroot scanner or malwarebyte that can run in under 2 minutes flat really matters. I never saw a scanner like Comodo that takes many hours to do a complete full scan. I've seen signature based scanners, the old ones, that finish even on slow computers in 3 hours. Comodo has a scanner in the cloud that is REALLY slow. If speed doesn't matter in the end I happily will use Comodo.
If no one really knows or can't answer right now I will put it to the test. I am very curious about that scanner.
Very cool news to report. Last night on the initial scan it must have taken 10 hours. Today it is on track to only take <=2 hours for my PC. I thought 10 hours for a regular Win 10 install (maybe like 100 GB) ? Crazy...right? It is much faster now! I am happy now that I picked comodo.
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