trying to run initial screne

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Matti

I'm running Windows XP, and installed MS AntiSpyware last
night. I have been running the initial scan for 16 hours
now, and it is still not finished. How long should this
usually take? Is there anything I can do to not have to
keep it running? It seems to freeze up when the screen
saver comes on, too, so I simply turned that off.
Still... this doesn't seem right.
 
Depends on the size of your HDD and the number of files,
size of registry etc. but 16 hrs is a bit extreme. Try
using another scanner like AdAware or Spybot and see if
they also take a long time. It takes about 10 minutes on
my system with about 15 GB of stuff. TTFN.
 
16 hours is way too long even for full scan. There should
be a number that tells you how many files AV has scanned.
look if it increases.

just for comparison, it took me 10 minutes to full scan a
12gig drive on a Athlon 2500+ w/1024MB ram and 15 minutes
on a P3 700Mhz lappy with 8 gig hdd
 
It seems to get hung up on registry keys. It's been
running for an hour or so now (after running Adware, which
only took a few minutes). It's at 60,000 registry keys
infected, and keeps counting. It hit 265,000 overnight
before it locked up this morning when I tried to see if I
could do something about it. Please help - the Adware
removal didn't seem to make any difference.

Thanks.
 
do you mean 60,000 registry scanned or infected? Cuz if you have that much
infected registry keys, then either you have some serious problem on your
computer or it's a bug.

you can also try to run a reg scaner/fixer. sorry, I can't remember the name
of any but I'm sure you can find one at download.com
 
Paul said:
do you mean 60,000 registry scanned or infected? Cuz if you have that
much infected registry keys, then either you have some serious
problem on your computer or it's a bug.
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LOL.....you're right.....it's one big "bug".
 
ELAINE!! Every time you've posted some reply to a thread
it's been "LOL" this and "LOL" that. Please construct
something a little more constructive and relevant to the
newsgroup you are posting in!!!!

Thanks

Mark
 
Mark said:
ELAINE!! Every time you've posted some reply to a thread
it's been "LOL" this and "LOL" that. Please construct
something a little more constructive and relevant to the
newsgroup you are posting in!!!!

Thanks

Mark
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LOL ...........
 
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