Running NIS 21.1.0.18 - cannot find this setting anywhere
Hi, TO-user. There are performance options you can adjust in the NIS UI, under the General tab/Performance Monitoring.
Is that what you meant ?
Or did you mean the Performance Tab in the main UI which flips, and where you can access Norton Tasks, Norton Insight for file scans, or the Startup manager ?
TO-user wrote:Running NIS 21.1.0.18 - cannot find this setting anywhere
Hi TO-user,
If you are referring to setting up automatic full scans:
Open NIS >Settings >Computer | Scan, scroll down to "Full System Scan" and click on Configure [ + ], in the next "Edit Scan" window you can choose how to set it up.
Personally, and FWIW, I've only configured "2 Scan Schedule" - so far I left "1 Scan Items" and "3 Scan Options" as per default settings.
Hope that helps.
Thanks for tryimg to help.
There is no manual on the site yet for NIS 2014, here is an extract from the 2013 user guide. The options mentioned below do not appear in my version of NIS - a 'Full System Scan' checks all files, there are zeros in the number of trusted files and skipped files in the scan summary. InNIS 2013 I could choose between the 3 options.
Configuring the Scan Performance Profiles
The Scan Performance Profiles settings let you
configure how Norton Internet Security should scan
your computer based on the digital signature and
confidence level of the files. To make Norton Internet
Security scans lighter, faster, and more effective, you
can exclude from scans the files that have known digital
signatures or high confidence levels.
You can configure the Scan Performance Profiles
settings to do the following:
1 Configure to Full Scan to perform a complete scan
of your computer.
Monitoring your system's performance
About System Insight
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The complete scan includes a scan of all files on
your computer irrespective of the confidence level
or digital signature of the files.
1 Configure to StandardTrust to perform a scan that
excludes the files that are Norton Trusted.
Norton Internet Security scans the files that have
a confidence level other than Norton Trusted.
1 Configure to High Trust to perform a scan that
excludes the files that have known digital signatures
or high confidence levels.
Norton Internet Security does not scan the files
that have confidence level as Norton Trusted or
User Trusted. It also excludes the Good files with
high confidence level from the scan. It scans the
files with confidence levels as Poor Trust, Unproven
Trust, Bad Trust, and the files without a class 3
digital signature.
You must configure the Scan Performance Profiles
settings before you run a scan or before a scan is
scheduled to run. Norton Internet Security scans your
computer according to the configuration you specified
in the Scan Performance Profiles settings.
To configure Scan Performance Profiles from the
Settings window
1 In the Norton Internet Security main window, click
Settings.
2 In the Settings window, in the left pane, click
Computer Scan.
3 In the Scan Performance Profiles row, click on one
of the settings. Your options are:
1 Full Scan
1 Standard Trust
1 High Trust
4 Click Apply, and then click OK.
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About System Insight
To configure Scan Performance Profiles from the Norton
Insight - Application Ratings window
1 In the Norton Internet Security main window, click
Advanced.
2 In the window that appears, in the Computer
Protection pane, click Application Ratings.
3 In the Norton Insight - Application Ratings
window, move the ScanPerformanceProfiles slider
to one of the settings. Your options are:
1 Full Scan
1 Standard Trust
1 High Trust
4 Click Close.
Hi, TO-user. As I understand it, you want to be able to set the trust levels for your scans.
If you go to the Performance Tab in the UI and flip it, click on Norton Insight, and it will scan all running processes.
After that scan has run, if you set it to run ALL Files then Norton will scan your system and return a higher number of trusted files, which will ensure a shorter scan in future as Norton will ignore all your trusted files, and only scan the remainder.
In V 21 aka 2014, there are a number of settings which have been removed.
I think what TO-user is asking about is the setting that allowed you to select whether Norton skipped certain types of trusted files (Norton Trusted and/or digitally signed files) or performed a scan of all files regardless of their trust level. That setting is no longer available in the 2014 (version 21) products.
F4E - running the options in Performance does not seem to make any difference - it told me it checked 3,902 files, and Files to Skip = 86.6%, Files to Scan = 13.40%, yet a full scan shows 560,000+ items scanned, Trusted Files 0, Skipped Files 0.
SendOfJive - I agree that this is what I was looking for and you say it is no longer available in the 2014 products.
Do you know why? I read the article here about SAPHIRE and why this option was introduced, but nothing about why it was dropped.
In NIS 2013, I used to run with Standard Trust daily, and Full Scan weekly or so, 'just in case' something slipped through and got trusted incorrectly. I don't have a problem if the option was removed purposely for some reason, a Full Scan runs fast enough.
Can you verify that this was done on purpose and not an oversight? If so, I will mark your reply as Accept as Solution.
Hi TO-user. Norton has removed some settings in the 2014 versions, presumably to simplify things for we mere users !
Running the full scan in Norton Insight via the Performance tab, will give you a quicker full scan when you scan your entire system.
As I stated before, Norton will skip previously scanned trusted files.
Hi TO-user,
I don't have any inside information on why this option was removed, but I am sure it was by design. I think the idea is to simplify the product and eliminate options which no longer serve any real purpose. The Standard Trust scan was always the default because there is absolutely no reason to repeatedly scan files that are already known to be 100% safe. Yet the Full Scan option was previously made available, most likely because some people still feel more comfortable scanning everything, even though doing so does not provide any advantage over scanning only untrusted files.
I think the same rationale applies to the elimination of the user option to choose between Smart Definitions (a core set of signatures) and a complete set of definitions. The complete set was unwieldy and unnecessary - the Smart Definitions have you covered against any known malware that you are likely to encounter in the wild, so why bog the system down with signatures for things that no longer pose any imminent danger? Again, some people simply felt more secure with a full set of definitions, even though it provided little or no benefit. Now that Standard Trust scans and Smart Definitions are mature and proven, I think Norton is just eliminating some of the unnecessary user options that no longer make any practical sense to keep. Perhaps, some day, email scanning (especially outgoing) will also lumber off into the sunset. We can only hope.