Skipping Many Files

rcook

When we run a full scan on my wife's laptop, it completes too quickly (10 mins?); on looking at the report, I see that it has skipped 800,000 or so files. What could cause BD to think we want it to skip files on a deep scan?

nikki605

You start off by stating "full scan" but end with "deep scan" in your last sentence. A lot of variables come into play when running any scan which will affect it's runtime - the quantity and types of files on the system, any exclusions set and the BD options selected, just to name a few.

Looking at my most recent scan logs (also a laptop) show results not too different from yours. A Deep Scan took 41:33 and a Full Scan took 5:49.

Deep Scan

Scan time: 00: 41: 33

Files per second: 152

Skipped items: 147774

Password-protected items: 5

Over-compressed items: 0

Scanned archives: 290

Input-output errors: 48

Scanned boot sectors: 4

Scanned processes: 3180

Infected processes: 0

Scanned registry keys: 12670

Infected registry keys: 0

Scanned cookies: 69

Infected cookies: 0

Full Scan

Scan time: 00: 05: 49

Files per second: 553

Skipped items: 406804

Password-protected items: 5

Over-compressed items: 0

Scanned archives: 5

Input-output errors: 54

Scanned boot sectors: 4

Scanned processes: 3195

Infected processes: 0

Scanned registry keys: 12670

Infected registry keys: 0

Scanned cookies: 69

Infected cookies: 0

Check you own scan logs and also read the User Manual for more information. Your results could be perfectly normal.

Regards,

coolcool1227

Hi

Read about skipped items here