Scan Options are ambigious (or ignored)

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ChriRobe

The "Scan Settings" radio button "Run a full system scan"
implies that I may deselect the "Scan selected
drives/folders" and do only as memory and registry scan.
(deep scan also deselected).

When I tried this the scan did a complete C:\* review.

Any combination of checks seems to be doing the same scan.
Are my selections being ignored? or am I thinking bas-ak-
wards again.

Drilling into the "select drives/folders" and deselecting
there causes a popup that ask's me `do you really know
what you are doing?` then proceeds to scan all of C:
 
There are definitely differences between the intelligent quickscan, and the
full scan, even when the same set of drives is selected (don't know what
that is--probably just the system drive for the quickscan.) If you look,
for example, at memory processes, the numbers are very different for the two
scans, and I recall hearing that the full scan generates md5 hashes for
every file checked, whereas the quickscan only generates them for possible
threats??--at any rate, some subset of files.

But what the precise definitions are of the two scans, I can't tell you--nor
can I tell you that the program assiduously honors the users stated
preferences as marked off in the current UI--there's a great deal of
testimony in these groups to the contrary!
 
You must check mark the "Save these settings" after selecting other
drives or folders, before scanning other drives than C will work.

Cordially,
Steven Fredette
President http://www.prowebsites.net
Indianapolis, Indiana. USA (-5 GMT/UT)
"For Your Internet Wants and Needs" Since 1997
 
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