My weekly NIS 2010 Idle Full System Scan ran today, and I was surprised that it ran so quickly, scanned only about 30% as many files as usual, and classified about 2/3 of those as Skipped (usually an insignificant number are skipped).
So about 90 minutes later I initiated a Full System Scan maually, and the results were the kind I have always seen in the Idle Full System scan prior to today.
It’s troubling that the today’s Idle Full System Scan seems, well, screwed up. This has never happened before in 6+ months of weekly NIS 2009 & 2010 Idle Full Scans on 2 pcs. Any idea why this might have happened? I trust my pc to NIS 2010 (not that I don’t also follow safe surfing practices and use adjunct tools occasionally). So ths really has me concerned. I shouldn’t have to “babysit” NIS looking for oddball Idle Scan behavior.
The scan summaries are below:
IDLE FULL SYSTEM SCAN - DURATION 7 MINUTES –>> Abnormal Looking
–>>>> Total Items Scanned 66,976
Files and Directories 64,151
Registry Entries 100
Processes and Startup Items 2254
Network and Browser Items 166
Other 105
Trusted Files 2350
–>>>> Skipped Files 45,066
FULL SYSTEM SCAN - DURATION 33 MINUTES –>> run manually about 90 minutes after Idle Full Scan. Normal counts and classes.
–>>>> Total Items Scanned 182,157
Files and Directories 179,289
Registry Entries 300
Processes and Startup Items 2292
Network and Browser Items 271
Other 5
Trusted Files 2371
–>>>> Skipped Files 81
Message Edited by Ardmore on 12-08-2009 05:47 PM