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Chun li

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A tech from Malwarebytes tells me that I should never use full scans on their product or any other type of anti-malware/antivirus etc. too often as it can harm my computer. A tech that works for Hewlett Packard tells me that running these programs on full often does no harm to your computer. I was just wondering if anyone here might be able to help me from their experience.
 
I've never heard of a full scan harming a computer, nor ever someone say you shouldn't use a full scan of their own product. I doubt this "tech" person from Malware is a real tech person. If you shouldn't run a full scan of their product they wouldn't have such a capability to do so. The only thing I've ever been told was to only run a full scan when necessary or once a month because of the time it can take to run a full scan on your system, depending on how many files you have. Running a full scan all the time isn't really needed, unless you are the type of person who goes to fishy sites *cough*porn*cough*.
 
No, a Malwarebytes scan will not "harm" your computer, but there is a very small grain of truth to what he said. It's ridiculous, but it's there.

When you run a full scan you are causing your hardware to work harder, which has an extremely nominal effect on how long your hardware will last, causing it to (technically) wear out faster. This is mostly evident with hard drives, which are the most mechanical part of your computer (unless you have a Solid State Drive).

So no, it's not likely to do any harm to your computer unless you are already infected with something and the fix "breaks" your system...it's been known to happen.
 
I've never heard of full scans harming computers either. Perhaps it may put strain on processors and RAM, but if they do, then your system is probably out of date to begin with. Or like with the HDD as said above. Don't know why dude told you that about a product to which he works for the company, but working at a company doesn't always mean employees are most knowledgeable about the products.
 
VanillaCreme said:
I've never heard of full scans harming computers either. Perhaps it may put strain on processors and RAM, but if they do, then your system is probably out of date to begin with. Or like with the HDD as said above. Don't know why dude told you that about a product to which he works for the company, but working at a company doesn't always mean employees are most knowledgeable about the products.
"working at a company doesn't always mean employees are most knowledgeable about the products."

True
 

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