Is it possible to shorten the scan time, it takes a lloong time.I thinkI might be doing something wrong.

Thanks.....Wally.

Your post should probably not be in the User Guide category. Anyway, you can do something to speed up scanning. For one thing, you can configure ClamWin in the Advanced Preferences to Try To Scan Executable Files Only. You can also regularly scan only the most important areas of your computer which are most likely to get malware--memory, Documents/Settings, and Windows. You could schedule a complete computer scan when you are not going to use the computer.

If you'd rather not do this, you can configure ClamWin's Filters to Scan Only Matching Filenames containing the file extensions that are most likely to get malware. There are 50 to 60 such file extensions. You can do a search on the Web for lists of these file extensions, but here's one: https://www.pcdoctor-guide.com/wordpress/?page_id=597 that you could use, but I don't think it's complete. I would add .dll files and document file extensions .pdf, .doc, .ppt, .xl*, and .rtf. I would also add compression/archive extensions .zip, .tar, .rar, and 7z. I would also include *.*.* for files with double extensions. If you use Office 2007, I would also add .do**, .pp**, and .xl** .

Finally, I would add .msi and .cab files to the Exclude Matching Filenames that ClamWin is already configured to exclude from scans because it presently "chews" on these types of files a little too long for me.

With this configuration, it takes ClamWin version .92 about 50 minutes to scan my 160 GB hard drive. If you are using a real-time scanner (such as the free AVG free, Avast, or AntiVir) along with ClamWin (and you probably should be), you are not taking any big risk in doing all this because the RT scanner will take up the slack. Even if ClamWin is your only scanner, you will still have a good chance of finding malware--provided it's in the Clam signatures. Update often, stay away from risky sites, and don't click on unknown links/downloads.

Regards,