1. Settings
(Top/Antivirus)

...imes a very confusing place. And often things are turned on that you simply do not need. Set the real-time scanner to not scan files on write, just on read, if that's an option. Scanning a file on...

2. Scheduling
(Top/Antivirus)

...s, and scan inside compressed files. In fact, turn on every single option you can, including the heuristic scanner to maximum intelligence, because you don't care how much CPU it takes in the midd...

3. Prevention
(Top/Antivirus)

...r schedule. All antivirus programs have this. This looks at every byte of every file on the disk. A manual scanner, where you manually select a file or directory and scan it. Not used very often. A re...

4. Spyware
(Top/Antispyware)

...nduct legal 'searches' of computers, and there is a debate going on right now about whether spyare scanners should detect that. The debate was rendered mostly moot by heuristic scanners that d...

5. Other Behavior
(Top/Antispyware)

...ts have to, at minimum, hide something somewhere to ensure they will actually get started with Windows, so scanners just have to do is look there. Once that is disabled, and windows rebooted, whatever...