No right click menu item for scanning a single file

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When one right-clicks a file, there is an option to run an Insight network scan, but there’s no option to do a ‘traditional’ scan of that file. Is this by design or is it an error? is this Insight Network scan just a network lookup of that file, or also a scan using local signatures?

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TomiRed,

 

That's a good question. As an experiment, I set NIS to block all network traffic. Then, I right-clicked on a group of files and ran a scan. The scan completed normally, suggesting that only local signatures were used. What's up?

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Hi Tomired

 

When one right-clicks a file, there is an option to run an Insight network scan, but there's no option to do a 'traditional' scan of that file. Is this by design or is it an error? - Tomired

 

It is not an error and this is how NIS is designed to work.

Right clicking on a file -> NIS-> gives you 2 options 1. Insight Network Scan 2. Norton File Insight

 

Insight Network scan is a traditional scan that uses both the recent definitions (available in the web) and the definitions available locally for effective scanning.

 

Please have a look at this post for more details:

 

http://community.norton.com/norton/board/message?board.id=nis2010_pb&message.id=5549#M5549

 

Thanks

Kavitha

Message Edited by Kavitha on 09-16-2009 09:21 AM
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Thanks, it’s clear now! I’m sorry I didn’t see that post before.