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[Alexander]

Hello, I have NIS 2012 + XP SP3

No scans are logged into history after October 1, 2012.

They seem to run but do not get logged.  Both Full and Quick scans.

1. Has anyone seen this before?

2. What can be done about it?

Thank you, Alex.

[dickevans Super RootKit Eradicator · Accepted solution]

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Alexander wrote:

Hello, I have NIS 2012 + XP SP3

No scans are logged into history after October 1, 2012.

They seem to run but do not get logged.  Both Full and Quick scans.

1. Has anyone seen this before?

2. What can be done about it?

Thank you, Alex.

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Hi Alex,
That does sound a bit unusual. Try this - delete your history file and see if the problem remains. Somewhere in the back of my mind I seem to remember that there is a size limit to that file and if doesn't auto delete when it gets filled.

Keep us posted

[Alexander]

Thank you for the quick reply, dickevans.

It did the trick.

I guess 103 pages of history was too much.

Regards, Alex.

[dickevans Super RootKit Eradicator]

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Alexander wrote:

Thank you for the quick reply, dickevans.

It did the trick.

I guess 103 pages of history was too much.

Regards, Alex.

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Alexander,

You are most welcome. Glad that did the trick for you

I suspect that when you get to about 100 pages some of the information is getting too old to be useful

Stay well and surf safe

[joen]

> I suspect that when you get to about 100 pages some of the information is getting too old to be useful

If this is true, it's a serious bug in NIS.

If there is a "history page limit" whereafter NIS 1) refuses to log anything anymore, and 2) does not make that clear to the user, then that's clearly a huge fail.

It would have  serious security implications, because the user could then miss important notes in history about infections.

Reminiscent of the firewall debacle, where there was an _unspecified limit_ to firewall entries.