Can't Scan C Drive

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Friend of mine told me his XP Pro PC was running dog slow, so I went
over Sunday to take a look at it. Ran Spybot and Ad-aware, no
improvement. He told me Norton Corporate Edition was running a scan
every night at 3 a.m., but I decided to do a manual scan of his hard
drive anyway. All that happened was the Scan window showed "Scanning
memory" for a few seconds, then "Scan complete"--without looking at
anything on the hard drive. Double checked the scan settings,
everything looked fine. Went to the Scan log, and it said no scan had
run since late June!

PC is so slow I couldn't even get Trend Micro's House Call to run.
Could there be a boot virus or something causing this? Is there
someway I can run an AV scan from floppy, after using a boot disk? Or
maybe run a scan from a Norton AV installation CD? Safe Mode was no
help, either.

John Jones, Detroit
 
Friend of mine told me his XP Pro PC was running dog slow, so I went
over Sunday to take a look at it. Ran Spybot and Ad-aware, no
improvement. He told me Norton Corporate Edition was running a scan
every night at 3 a.m., but I decided to do a manual scan of his hard
drive anyway. All that happened was the Scan window showed "Scanning
memory" for a few seconds, then "Scan complete"--without looking at
anything on the hard drive. Double checked the scan settings,
everything looked fine. Went to the Scan log, and it said no scan had
run since late June!

PC is so slow I couldn't even get Trend Micro's House Call to run.
Could there be a boot virus or something causing this? Is there
someway I can run an AV scan from floppy, after using a boot disk? Or
maybe run a scan from a Norton AV installation CD? Safe Mode was no
help, either.

John Jones, Detroit
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If the person didn't know that the scan was not running since June, then
there is no telling what and how *many* exploits are on the machine. I
suggest that you simply wipeout the machine and move on. It's just a
suggestion.

You may want to *harden* the XP O/S to attack a little bit.

http://www.uksecurityonline.com/index5.php

Duane :)
 
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