I've recently built a new PC running Win 7 Pro 64-bit. I went to download NIS 2012 but it was no longer available so I wound up with 20.1.1.2 (2013?). After installation, I immediately ran a full system scan. The scan completed with 946,000 items scanned. After 5 days of installing additional applications, I scanned again - 985,000 items scanned. Three more days go by and my apps have all been installed and configured the way I like. Just before I am about to use Norton Ghost to make a backup images, I run one more scan. This scan (using same parameters as prior scans) only scans 228,000 items. At this point, I am worried. I run LiveUpdate for NIS 2013 and rerun the scan - 988,000 items scanned.
I then proceeded to make my backup image with Norton Ghost (2002). After the backup is completed, I run another Full System scan - it only scans 228,000 items. I immediatly rerun the scan 3 more times. The first two rescans scan about 228,000 items. The final rescan scans 1,032,000 items. I finally wonder just how many files I have and go look at my hard drives. I have a total of about 178,000 files in 30,000 folders.
Does anyone know how NIS is scanning almost 4 times the number of items that are on PC and why it is doing so intermittently? I have concerns that if NIS can't tell how many files there are to scan, how can it possible protect them all?
Jonathan