trying to run initial screne

[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.

 

[The Unknown P]

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.

 

[Paul L]

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

 

[Matti]

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.

 

[Paul L.]

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

 

[Elaine]

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.

LOL.....you're right.....it's one big "bug".

 

[Mark]

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

 

[Elaine]

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

LOL ...........

 

[Paul L.]

lol hahaha

LOL ...........