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Talavemr,
If almost 50,000 security risks were found on my computer, I would be concerned.
This type of result indicates the presence of some mutation malware that itself might be yet undetected, but which is aggressively corrupting system files. New computer or not, with all the bells and whistles or not, all it takes is a single infection by the right piece of malware and within a very short period of time your computer has been extensively poisoned.
So please don't be so casual about dismissing what was reported.
First of all, if this were my computer, I would copy to a memory stick whatever data files I considered essential. Then I would reload the original system. 50,000 security risks is too much to ever hope to get your system back to absolute normal (in my opinion, anyway).
Second, I think I understand the hang-up in this case. If Norton is waiting for a response on your part in each one of these 50,000 risks, or even if it is merely in the process of quarantining them, a lot of live database is inventorying this process. When you press STOP in the middle of any process, the response for any piece of software is never immediate.
1. The software has got to detect that you clicked on STOP. Some software samples the STOP button every other programming unit (thus essentially doubling the length of time performing whatever task is being performed - imagine the impact of this strategy on a system scan). Some software takes the more conservative strategy of checking for a STOP at the end of a predefined sequence of computer code (for example, when a file has been completely or scanned -- in the case of a CAB or ZIP file this can prove to be a fairly long time period for the user).
2. After the STOP has been "noticed" by the software, the software itself has to perform cleanup before shutting down. Again, for simple programs, cleanup is nothing more than copying, moving, or deleting various temporary info files necessary to its process. For example, AOL at closure will backup up its two most important files that save user settings and data such as favorite places -- taking up to maybe 1 to 5 seconds to accomplish this task.
NIS, however, has an active inventory of files it has been working with and that need to be dealt with. All this data needs to be removed in the right way of you'd be left with a very large piece of garbage in your harddrive. Merely deleting this is probably not the only thing Norton is engaged in. It has a number of Fix Me's it was originally waiting for the user to look at and deal with. Each of these is probably inventoried separately in terms of how the user's response is to be dealt with. All of these need to be dealt with. Beyond that, Norton is probably set to make auto-decisions on certain categories of threats, which means a number of files are being moved from their present location to the quarantine folder and that the process is being inventoried so that you will know about it later. The decisions might be made fast but the actual physical process can be lengthy. If each of your 50,000 files averaged 100 KB in size, we are talking about manipulating 5 GB of data - copying in a new location and deleting from the old one (the two-step process we call "moving.")
So when you press STOP, you might prevent further new activity after Norton picks up the STOP signal, but it still needs to complete the processes it was in the middle of doing before you pressed STOP and to clean up from it.
I hope all this makes sense to people.