Full scan has gone from 26 minutes to 4 minutes

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Surely 4 minutes is too short a time period to be a full scan ?

Showing no problems with ‘‘diagnostics’’.

I uninstalled Rapport today. Thats the only change to my system.

Thanks

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Just run a quick scan and that only take 1 minute. :o

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I believe this is normal. The caching technology effectively ensures that the scan will skip over all files which have not changed recently and have been recently scanned. I know there’s more to the algorithm used, but I don’t know enough details to tell you what they are.

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Thanks for the reply.

Up until today i have been scanning once a week for nearly 2 years which has generally lasted around 26 minutes with cis.

Why the change today ?

Thanks

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Beginning with version 6.0 this caching was introduced. Have you only just recently upgraded to version 6? If not, how long ago did you update?

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Sorry , where can i check the latest updates and what version i’m now running ?

In windows control panel comodo dragon has a date of the 3rd of this month.

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Please post a screenshot of the main CIS GUI.

Thanks.

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Chiron,

In ‘‘about’’ it shows this ;

Product version 6.2.285401.2860
Database version 16831

Is that what you need ?

Thanks

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Yes. That means that you are using version 6, which includes the caching I mentioned.

I believe that in general the more often you scan the lower the scan time will be. Is that perhaps what you are experiencing?