On 23 Dec 2005 at 12:18, Sybilgal wrote:

> Can anyone tell me if scanning your system daily does any harm to the HD?
> Is there a frequency limit that one should have?


  Does your antivirus do "real-time protection"?  (This means that every
time anything writes a file to your drive, the A/V scans it.)

  If it does, then there's no point in scanning more often than your virus
definitions get updated -- every scan will be seeing files that have already
been scanned, and without new definitions the things that will be found
can't change.

  But I *do* recommend checking for updates daily....

  The additional "wear" on your drive is negligible -- sectors in your
swapfile will get read and rewritten far more often than anything a daily
scan will do.

David Gillett

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