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[delphinium Norton Fighter]

Since this topic has come up again, I would like to revisit some of the details myself.  \please forgive the length of this post, and the time it will take to get it approved,  I would appreciate some feedback.

This is a new Win 7 Home Premium, 64 bit, hardly used NIS 2011.  These are my settings.

These are the scan details in order from Setember 1 to Oct 18.

  This is the first scan after updating to 2011

  This adds up pretty close and the time taken

  Now it doesn't add up and it took just as much time

Now it really gets goofy.  It takes longer to do less??

Now it is really taking some time to do very little

So now we are back to normal

So a week later, what is with this??

Please feel free to comment.  For info, everything is updated, runs very nicely, no glitches or issues other than this needs some rational explanation.  I'm just not getting it.

[Tywin7]

I checked my history and found the same results (converted history into txt format).

Edit: Changed to chronological order

10/15/2010 9:19 PM,Info,Full System Scan results,Completed,Full System Scan,0:00:53:46,"376,520","370,370",364,"5,598",184,4,"5,307","21,019",0,0,0,,

10/20/2010 3:00 AM,Info,Full System Scan results,Completed,Full System Scan,0:00:28:42,"381,923","375,971",364,"5,394",190,4,"6,140","20,829",0,0,0,,
10/22/2010 2:56 AM,Info,Full System Scan results,Completed,Full System Scan,0:00:26:11,"382,147","375,969",364,"5,626",184,4,"6,156","21,103",0,0,0,,

My settings:

[AllenM Norton Fighter]

Hi Delphinium,

You know the drill. I have put in the request for Symantec to comment on this.

I must admit I'm wondering myself.

Best wishes.

Allen

[delphinium Norton Fighter]

Thanks, Allen.  Perhaps we will discover the secret to an alternate universe here. 

[Niko233]

Tywin7, you have not the same. your quantity of scan items is not vary.

delphinium, let us know about caching function (Settings -> Computer Settings -> Real Time Protection -> Auto-Protect -> Caching) : may be it was turned off, then the items with about 30000 files scanned and a scan time for a 40 minutes was occurred?

no mystic, only peculiar algorithms.

[delphinium Norton Fighter]

I was never good at algorithms, Niko233.  What caching, where, have you got in mind?

[Tywin7]

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Niko233 wrote:

Tywin7, you have not the same. your quantity of scan items is not vary.

delphinium, let us know about caching function (Settings -> Computer Settings -> Real Time Protection -> Auto-Protect -> Caching) : may be it was turned off, then the items with about 30000 files scanned and a scan time for a 40 minutes was occurred?

no mystic, only peculiar algorithms.

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I was showing that scan takes longer even though the total scan file scan is less.  Plus, it makes no sense that the caching will flip itself off for no reason, unless you changed it delph.

[delphinium Norton Fighter]

I can't tell you one way or the other until somebody tells me what caching you are talking about.

[Tywin7]

Scan results as picture:

[Tywin7]

This caching in settings: