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Hi everyone!
I should have asked this a long time ago, but keep on forgetting it :). Anyways (see attachment). When the full scan has been done and the total number of files scanned, why does it not include those "files already marked safe within the last 24 hours". What does Trend Micro do with those files that are marked safe, does it do any sort of analysis, or monitoring, does it check for another 24 hours, or etc? What if those files gets modified by Windows OS or by malware? What would Trend Micro do then? Is is something that Trend Micro can do or improve on in the next version of Trend Micro?
bvasilev
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2 years ago
If these files change for whatever reason, their SHA256 will be completely different and they will be rescanned.
The exclusion of safe files provide better performance vs constantly scanning everything.
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tm_karr
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2 years ago
Hi, ahsans
Welcome to Trend Micro Home Users Community
The reason why Full Scan excluded those files to be scanned is that they were already scanned within the last 24 hours and marked as files that are safe to be in your computer.
It is excluded by the Full Scan to shorten the scan time period and for the scan performance to be at its best.
In case those files that are marked as safe is modified it will be immediately removed from the group and will be classified after rescanning
In case you need more help, please let us know immediately.
Regards
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ahsans
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2 years ago
Thanks everyone for your comments! @saccharine_ching based on what you wrote it seems like I know what you are talking about. This same feature was also on Norton (when I used Norton antivirus) it will do a full system scan first to know which files are safe and which ones are not. Next time you do a full system scan it will not scan those files which are deemed as safe. They have a feature called Norton safe files or something along those lines.
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