NIS 2009 Full System Scan time

I ran a Full System Scan yesterday and it took 3 hours and 59 minutes to scan 1,014,51 files. 950 were trusted and 0 skipped. This is about 2X as long as a full system scan with Avira.

My question to users is, is 4 hours a typical duration for a full scan on a million files? Your comments are appreciated in advance.

 

thats a long time but that is a boat load of files. I an going to do an on demand scan right now and I will post back here as to how long and how many files it scanned.

 

I did a full scan with 239000 files and it lasted for 2 hours and 39 minutes. Avira is a lot faster on scans.

 

Why do people complain about scan times. Do a full scan and walk away. Every pc is different and every pc has more files then others. I have about 900,000 files to scan. Any scanner I have ever used takes about 3 hours. No biggie unless your sitting there and watching it. NIS states full scan is nto need either.

 

I did a full system scan 5 days ago. It scanned 450,884 files and it took 22 minutes and 23 seconds.


Cheers

 

I just did a full scan and here is what it scanned in 12 minutes and found one tracking cookie

 

I am not complaining- I am seeking user feedback on scan times.

 

I have no idea how that is possible. Even at the Symantec forum, they are saying (mostly) that my time is typical. So both cannot be logically correct. Not doubting your experience- I just do not understand the differential.

 

It makes a whole lot of difference in scan speed depending on your hardware and software setup. My quad core processor doesn't strain any on an on demand scan.

 

one other thought, My norton 2008 never took over thirty minutes to scan the same computer.

 

Very true. It all depends on how fast your pc is not just how fast NIS scans. It can only scan as fast as your cpu lets it.

 

Just finished a new scan. This time it scanned 563,666 files in 22 minutes and 40 seconds.


Cheers

 

That is likely the explanation which I of course considered, but it appears that a quad core processor offers geometric incremental speed increases to complete any scan compared to a single core processor that I am using on the laptop in question.

 

as long as it gets the job done and finds any baddies it's all good

 

So true. Symantec actually states full scan is not needed. Thats why its off by default. Anytime I have ever run a full scan with anything I do it before I go to bed. When you wake up its done. Who cares about how long it takes when your sleeping. Correct.

 

Hi BunkHouse Buck I just did a foreground full system scan with 6 % trusted 94% needed at 47 minutes to complete of this many files.

 

Listen People Norton Insight has nothing to do with full scan speeds. If you actually see what Insight scans it scans your running processes for known good and trusted processes and checks those with an online data base. The more trusted processes you have the less scanning your real time scanner needs to do hence the speed up.

http://community.norton.com/norton/board/message?board.id=nis_feedback&thread.id=7636

 

What can make a difference on the scan speed is foreground or background if ya minimize it takes longer to complete the scan and turn frees up performance to other programs.

 

I am not running NIS but is there a scan setting that may be like a deep or quick scan? Maybe some of the other users with alot lower times are scanning with different scan settings allowing it to complete quicker.

 

it took 23mins for a full scan on my pc. with default settings. couldnt find many options to change.
kaspersky 2009 takes around 25 mins. with kaspersky i put heristics to full, deep rootkit scan etc.

 

on the highest settings i could find, it did mine is just 16 minutes.

shockingly fast

 

What is your hardware?

 

just a laptop,

2.1 t8100 intel dual core, 4gb ram, 320gb SATA HD, blu-ray drive , 16" widescreen 1080p lcd, 512mb nvidia geforce 9500 GS Turbocache graphics card.

 

So pretty much this is the only thing that affected the test. (check Bold above)

Lol anyways I tried it on my old AMD Barton 3000+

617k files in 31 min. not to bad here.

 

I was running Avira Premium on this notebook, and windows firewall behind a router,
scan times were generally about 48 minutes, computer runs Vista HP SP1, and has dual core
at 2ghz, 3gb ram, 320 gig hard drive, and a nvidia 512 graphics card.

I installed NIS 2009 and full scan took 37 minutes to scan 417,486 files.

Wake