Re: NeWT Security Scanner

On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 06:13:42 GMT, "DanR" <dhr22@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>John, have you ever had NeWT on any of your computers? I am running a virus scan
>of my computer for the first time since loading the NeWT program. It is taking
>hours and hours to get through the \plugins\scripts folder. There are over 8,000
>small files in that folder but the real problem is that it is taking Norton AV
>2004 over a minute per file. That's about 5.5 days to get through that folder. I
>noticed when I downloaded the setup file that Norton AV was taking forever to
>scan the incoming file and I had to "skip" that scan. Just curious about this.

8000 files? I count 1227 files in:
c:\program files\tenable\newt\plugins\scripts\
It took AVG Free virus scanner about 15 seconds to scan all of them.
I did a plugin update first to be sure I didn't miss any.
Where did you find 8000 plugins?

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