Norton Internet Security / Norton AntiVirus

[Handjojo]

Dear All,

Without intending to compare wich on is the best, Why is my NIS 2012 (19.7.0.9) scan external my hard drive with a report files that has scanned less than another anti virus, for I.e with my NIS reported file scanned 36.031 files but with another anti virus reported 221.125 files ?, although i have set my NIS with the following configuration:

1. Heuristic Protection set to "Aggressive"

2. Scan Performance Profile set to "Full Scan"

Please advice me....

Tks & B/regards,

[SendOfJive Norton Fighter]

Hi Handjojo,

The file counts can vary not only among products, but also between Norton scans themselves.  For example, if you recently ran a scan, and have not received a new virus definitions update since, then your next scan will skip all clean, unchanged files - so your file count for the second scan will be dramatically lower than for the first.  There are also differences in how products count files within compressed files, etc.