Files scanned

Started by mfenech, Jul 27 2005 04:12 PM

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#1 OFFLINE mfenech

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Posted 27 July 2005 - 04:12 PM

One of those dumb questions about something eludes me...

I run a full system scan with Ad-Aware: 87,000 files scanned
I run a scan with Stinger: 18,000 files scanned
I run a full scan with Counterspy: 102,000 files scanned
I run Panda's online ActiveScan: 164,000 files scanned

Why the huge disparities?

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#2 OFFLINE Tarun

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Posted 27 July 2005 - 05:15 PM

File types, directories, etc that are scanned.

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#3 OFFLINE Andavari

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Posted 27 July 2005 - 05:41 PM

...also some scanners only count an archive (.zip, .cab, etc) as one file scanned, whereas some count the files inside an archive as individual files.

Complexity of incoherent design.

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#4 OFFLINE agumon

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Posted 28 July 2005 - 11:47 AM

... and also the depth of the archive...

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