Originally Posted by
AOD_Mokona512
At the early boot stages, drive performance is not very good as none of the more advanced driver features will be active, thus you are stuck with tiny reads for the majority of the files, and very low queue depths, thus you you will be stuck with the worst case performance for the drive.
and if you are using a hard drive instead of an SSD, then a scan can become significantly slower if the drive has a higher than normal error rate (you can use programs such as spinrite (level 4 scan) to check and correct most error rate issues)
Also, even if you are not going to any shady websites, it is still possibly to access malicious content, most commonly though infected banner ads. since most website owners do not really vet the ads on the site, instead they just give someone else control over a div element on their site where they can pretty much put anything they want, since attackers have realized this, they find it easier to just take out an ad running a malicious script.