Failing to scan files?

Hi guys & gals

If i run a scan on my C: drive with NOD32 it scans around 15000 files.

I also run the free 'Housecall' scan by Trend Micro and this scans 50000+ files.

I had Norton 03 before NOD32 and i seem to remember this scanning the same amount as the housecall....anyone know what's going on?

Thx,

B

 

I just noticed that theese boxes are not checked in the setup menu.

Runtime Packers
Archives
E-mail Files

I am guessing my problem comes from not scanning the archives, right?

Do i need the Runtime Packers box checked....i have no clue what it is

I would have thought that at least the archives box would have been checked as default....anyone know a reason why it aint?

Thx,

B

 

My good buddy here misplaced his post in the "version 1" forum and asked me just now on teamspeak why there was no response - so I looked and here he is in the right place now

 

Rodzilla, who is the distributor for NOD32 in Australia, (and the father of this forum) would agree wholeheartedly when I say that Eset has made an error in judgement in setting the defaults in NOD32 to "a medium" level instead of setting them at a "high" level as many other AV vendors do. Hopefully, Eset will change this in the future. As it is now, the user has to go in and set everything to maximum.

Yes, you should have runtime packers and archives checked and email if you want NOD32 to check that. If you have IMON running it has already checked your email so it's up to you if you want NOD32 scanner to check it also.

On the setup page for NOD32 do you have it set to scan all files under extensions? That also is unchecked by default. I think all these things should be checked by default and then the user can go in and make the settings less strict instead of the way it is now where the default settings are not at all strong and is the responsibility of the user to make strong settings. Many people new to NOD32 don't realize this.

 

See this thread on how we set up Nod32 to scan all files, runtime packers etc...

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=21171

Hope this helps.

Cheers

 

Great stuff guys....thanx a lot!!

That thread you pointed me to was especially helpful Blackspear

I am now scanning everything.

I was pretty much set up the way you explained there but i prefer to get an alert at the sign of any trouble rather than have NOD delete a non-cleanable virus as i am using the deep heuristics scan method....i can see why you try and persuede people to do it that way though

NOD really is a great bit of kit and i for one will be pimping it to all my friends and i will using it for a long time to come.

Thx again,

B

 

I do to. One thing I did notice and this can be for those who have RA and RC. I had it set to alert, but the users once were infected were just canceling by and not calling me. I created a config file that would clean their hard drive, and if it couldn't clean it would delete. It would also connect to the RA server every 5 minutes so I can keep tabs on it. I have set them to 90 minutes due to network traffic.