tds c drive scan

[the mul]

can someone tell me when I scan with tds it shows 26500 files scanned in c drive but with nav 2003 it shows 53000 files scanned in c drive


The Mul

[DolfTraanberg]

Are there any files excluded in the Scan options?
Dolf

[Wayne - DiamondCS]

Files inside archives etc are counted differently by different scanners, and different scanners are able to scan inside different archive formats

[Dan Perez]

]Hi :)

Not sure but it may be that NAV is also counting files within archives separately while TDS is not.

Hopefully someone will have a definitive answer to put forward :)


[Late Edit - LOL and they did!!! ;D ;D ;D ]

[the mul]

can u tell me do u notice the difference between your av scans and tds




The Mul

[DolfTraanberg]

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can u tell me do u notice the difference between your av scans and tds
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Dolf

[Dan Perez]

Hi Mul,

I'm afraid I will have to step away shortly so I can't run the tests for a while but I will post afterwards. for AVs I use NOD and KAV Pro so I will show comparitive stats from each

Seeya,

Dan

[Jooske]

And did you check all scanoptions in the TDS scan configuration?

[the mul]

yes I have all options checked in tds scan option

[Dan Perez]

Okay, finally got all the scans done. ;)

I've been meaning to do full scans for some time but I kept putting it off. The totals of files scanned are as follows

Scanning Totals Comparison

KAV PRO

Files *** ******227020

NOD32

Files *********82784

TDS

Files*********112496


The discrepancies in the numbers are due to variations between the products on what types of archives are supported for their respective "scan within archive" options

Also, it should be noted that I have multiple eicar test files as well as two archived optix.pro vers and TDS found the most hits :)

Hope this helps,

Dan

[Gavin - DiamondCS]

Well I think if KAV scanned CHM files theres anywhere from 20 to 1000 HTML files inside one compiled help file - they all get scanned :D and it would report files like .txt - it WAS scanned in a sense, the scanner was smart enough to skip it :) Numbers are as misleading as anything..