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Title: Repeat / Loop Scanning
Post by: zola on April 20, 2004, 03:16:41 AM

On a Thorough Scan with Archive scan enabled, the scanning process seems to loop through a repeat scanning.

My O/S is Win XP.

I stopped the scan mid-way through its repeat performance.

Suggestions?


Best regards,

Zola ???

Title: Re:Repeat / Loop Scanning
Post by: pk on April 20, 2004, 03:33:01 AM

Was it an archive file which was scanned in a loop ?
If you don't know, you may display all scanned files to the report and have a look.
Thanks.

Title: Re:Repeat / Loop Scanning
Post by: zola on April 20, 2004, 04:47:23 AM

PK

"Was it an archive file which was scanned in a loop" ?


All files were selected for sclanning in the "thorough" scan mode.

I may have worded my question awkwardly.

Avarst! scanned my computer and when it reached the end of my second hard disk, it started the scanning process all over again.

Can you help?

Thanks

zola

Title: Re:Repeat / Loop Scanning
Post by: Vlk on April 20, 2004, 08:16:34 AM

How long did you leave it running? The scanned files that are reported in the main window can be a bit misleading - if I were you, I'd try to run it overnight to really make sure it's looping...

You could also turn on generation of the report file (via program Settings dialog), and verify there really are duplicates...

Title: Re:Repeat / Loop Scanning
Post by: zola on April 20, 2004, 03:29:19 PM

Thanks, VLK ...

Will run overnight, initiate report and advise if the anomaly persists.

Zola ;D