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I just used a new antivirus program?
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! |
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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. Hope this helps |
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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 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 |
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C:\hiberfil.sys and C:\pagefile.sys
Should it be able to open these two files or not? Pagefile.sys is related to the system memory. Virtual Memory in Windows XP 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 best protection for your computer is a 3-tiered approach: [1] anti-spyware software [2] anti-virus software, and a [3] firewall [1] Latest Security News from the net: Latest list of Firewalls (use only one at at time) [2] Latest Latest list of Anti Virus programs (use Only one at at time) [3] Latest Latest list of Anti Spyware removal tools |
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