I just downloaded Antivir virus protection and ran a scan on my laptop and have some questions.

I used to use McAfee.

When I ran a full scan with McAfee, it would show in the area of 155,000 files scanned.

Now, I ran this Antivir and it came up with 275,547 files scanned.

Why so much difference?

Also, it gave me two files that it said could not open:

C:\hiberfil.sys and C:\pagefile.sys

Should it be able to open these two files or not?

Is there any risk involved with these two files since it cannot open them?

I appreciate any responses in advance!

If running Winxp or win2k press F8 during the first part of boot and start in safe-mode w/ networking and rescan the HD w/ housecall. That should do the trick

HouseCall cannot access the files listed below. (http://www.ozzu.com/general-discussion/housecall-cannot-access-the-files-listed-below-t32027.html)

Hope this helps

Ok Housecall is an anti vurus program -- I thought there may be a similar issue

Running an anti virus program and could not access the file you mentioned

Most anti virus programs preform similar functions -- thought this might help

Maybe this site will help -- It is about Anti Vir which you ran

Avira AntiVir scan log... - TechSpot Troubleshooting (http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-57240-Avira-AntiVir-scan-log.html)

They are all Windows system files. Why your antivirus is trying to open them is beyond me.

I seriously doubt any of those files are malicious

C:\hiberfil.sys and C:\pagefile.sys
Should it be able to open these two files or not?
HIBERFIL.SYS is a file the system creates when the computer goes into hibernation mode
Pagefile.sys is related to the system memory.
Virtual Memory in Windows XP (http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php)

As they are system files the antivir will no be able to open them.As they are xp system file there would be no risk.


When I ran a full scan with McAfee, it would show in the area of 155,000 files scanned.
Now, I ran this Antivir and it came up with 275,547 files scanned.
The second must have scanned the files in the system restore and temp files.


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