Checked out the Insight Optimiser after installing. It showed the trusted files as 77% but I could not decide if it increased performance as I had nothing to compare it with.

86% trusted - 14% not. is this good or bad?
seems to be about the middle of the pack looking at others results

90% of files trusted, 10% not.

First impressions were great - now I can scan all potentially dangerous files, while leaving, for example, those massive program files folders from trustworthy applications such as games etc. (mostly) alone, which would undoubtedly reduce the scan time substantially.

I then decided to do a test using the eicar test file. I download the .zip version of it which downloaded quite happily undetected. I then performed a Quick Scan, assuming it would scan everything apart from those files that are trusted. The result however was 'No viruses or spyware detected'. This really leads me to question the usefulness of the whole concept!

I have now left another copy of the file on the computer. Perhaps if Norton has time to index the files first, it might find it in the next quick scan?


N.B. Performing a manual scan of the file in question does detect it as a virus, so it is actually in the signature database.

No longer worried the Norton Diagnostic Report has shown them to be Cyberlink files.
:0)

just ran this, not making any obvious impact.