Originally Posted By: StevieC
Because I leave my computer on all the time I set it to do an update at 3am then scan the computer every night at 4am. It's done by 7am when I get up and then I know my computer is well protected because it is scanned every night.
With my laptop I set it around 7pm when I know I'm just surfing the web and it won't tie up too much horsepower.
Does your AV scan in real time? Back when I had Windows boxen, and used AVG Free, I just used the real time scanner and never ran a full scan; thinking they were redundant.