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Hello BunkhouseBuck1,
That would seem right based upon my results: 1 hour 42 minutes for 456,000 items.
Norton does a very deep and thorough scan, so I am okay with the time factor.
I think scan time depends of number of files but depends and how much you have a compressed files (zip,rar,cab)
For example,I have about 630,000 files and full system scan tooks about 1h and 25 minutes
It seems a long time. Have you updated Norton Insight? After doing so, it sometimes takes one more scan before the scan time is reduced.
Yes I did update Norton Insight just before the scan. 81% of the files were trusted. Others here say in prior posts this is about typical and I am polling users at Wilder’s Security forum. The problem I have seen so far, is that users are reporting that my scan time is about typical (that’s ok with me since it is a deep scan) or that it is about 10X longer than what they have experienced. There is no logical way that both can be correct.
BunkhouseBuck1 wrote:
Yes I did update Norton Insight just before the scan. 81% of the files were trusted.
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Did you try scanning a second time after updating Norton Insight?
My Scantime is less than 2 hours , 1.500.000 Files on 9 Partitions (2 Drives) .
Sys .. Q6600 , 4 GB .
i do not think that other AV- software are much faster.
Yes and it made no difference at all. In addition, a Symantec employeee states that one of the purposes of NI is not to necessarily decrease Full System Scan times so I cannot see how that makes any difference.
http://community.norton.com/norton/board/message?board.id=nis_feedback&thread.id=7636
Voyager10:
Hardware has a lot to do with it, but more than I thought. I am a Norton user, but Avira is 2X as fast for scans at least on my box.
'Norton Insight' can make a big difference to the time it takes a full system scan to run. Apparently you have to have your drive formatted in NTFS*. How is your drive formatted?
Drive is NTFS and I have been using computers since they filled up a whole room (1968).
In that case, if you have such a large number of files on your drive, then possibly it may take that long for a thorough scan.
BunkhouseBuck1 wrote:
Yes I did update Norton Insight just before the scan. 81% of the files were trusted. Others here say in prior posts this is about typical and I am polling users at Wilder's Security forum. The problem I have seen so far, is that users are reporting that my scan time is about typical (that's ok with me since it is a deep scan) or that it is about 10X longer than what they have experienced. There is no logical way that both can be correct.
Hi BunkhouseBuck1.
The Norton Insight percentage meter gives an indication of the percentage of trusted files that are currently executing, i.e. all running possesses and all of their loaded modules, this percentage is unrelated to what other files may be on the system.
As this blog post on Insight explains, the primary focus of Insight is to improve realtime performance.
The time it takes to scan a collection of files varies greatly based on your hardware, and on the types of files you are scanning.
Not all security products process all file types as thoroughly as NIS does, e.g. NIS will decompose PDF files and scan the embedded scripts and attachments, same with Office documents.
Any container files also require significantly more processing, e.g. each file inside a ZIP or a CAB will be analyzed, and if that file is also a ZIP then that file will also be processed.
NIS will cache the scan information, and if the file has not changed, and the definitions did not change, then the files will not be scanned again. To see the difference between skipped files and trusted files, click the ">>" on the left side of the "total items scanned" text in the scan UI. If you perform the same scan again, the number of trusted files will remain the same, but the number of skipped files will increase.
I think the scan times you observe seem reasonable, and I hope the additional information explains your observations, and clears up some misconceptions.
Pieter