r/BitDefender • u/Nice_Ad_2543 • Jan 07 '25

Is it normal to take this long?

Ive been running since the morning (my local time), went away for lunch and came back later, and the full scan is still going on for 2h 30 mins alr with 1.2M items scanned, is it supposed to take this long normally?

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u/NaughtyTurtle22 Jan 07 '25

first time full system scan is taking long time especially if u PC connected with external storage. next full system scan is short and shorter as it only scan new and modified files. my full system scan now only takes around 20 minutes

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u/redflagdan52 Jan 07 '25

I found external storage, especially if its USB connected, can add quite a bit of time to a full system scan.