Is this security?

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John MacDonald

Hello Everyone:

My son has a win 2000 machine that has come up with some problems. I have
not been able to get it to boot up clean and get rid of the Adware. I
thought I would setup his drive as a slave in my machine to scan it with my
Norton antivirus.

the problem is that the second drive does not come up in Windows explorer
although it is definately there. The Bios picks it up and device manager can
see it and reports that there is nothing wrong with it.

Is this the end of moving around hard drives in the name of security?

PLEASE HELP.

JMAC out
 
Check to see what Disk Management has to say about it. From the "Run" box;
diskmgmt.msc
and possibly assign it a drive letter.

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| Hello Everyone:
|
| My son has a win 2000 machine that has come up with some problems. I have
| not been able to get it to boot up clean and get rid of the Adware. I
| thought I would setup his drive as a slave in my machine to scan it with
my
| Norton antivirus.
|
| the problem is that the second drive does not come up in Windows explorer
| although it is definately there. The Bios picks it up and device manager
can
| see it and reports that there is nothing wrong with it.
|
| Is this the end of moving around hard drives in the name of security?
|
| PLEASE HELP.
|
| JMAC out
|
|
 
Hello Everyone:

My son has a win 2000 machine that has come up with some problems. I have
not been able to get it to boot up clean and get rid of the Adware. I
thought I would setup his drive as a slave in my machine to scan it with my
Norton antivirus.
Click to expand...

Antivirus software is not the best choice to use against spyware/adware.
You would do well to try either or both Spybot
<http://www.spybot.info/en/index.html> and Adaware
the problem is that the second drive does not come up in Windows explorer
although it is definately there. The Bios picks it up and device manager can
see it and reports that there is nothing wrong with it.
Click to expand...

Did you assign a drive letter to the new drive using the Drive Management
in the Computer Manager?
 
Thanks :

I have the drive being scanned right now.

The Diskmanagment did the trick.

I must admit that I've never been up against something like this in an
operating system, but, it seems to be for a good reason.

Thanks again.

JMAC out
 
Michael:

The problem is that Norton found these infections and Adaware and Spybot did
not.

We have both installed and my son is trained to use them. It was only when
we installed our new copy of Norton that I noticed that the norton was shut
off and that some of his internet functionality was missing.

hats off to Norton again. ( The other tools are good too.)

JMAC out
 
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