tds c drive scan

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

 

Are there any files excluded in the Scan options?
Dolf

 

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

 

]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!!! ]

 

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




The Mul

 

AV scans for virusses
TDS scans for trojans
Wormguard scans for worms
Dolf

 

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

 

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

 

yes I have all options checked in tds scan option

 

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

Code:

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

 

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 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..