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| Thread ID: 10804 | 2001-08-13 21:07:00 | Where do viruses usually reside (for scanning)? | Guest (0) | Press F1 |
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| 16938 | 2001-08-13 21:07:00 | It can take a long time to do a complete virus scan of multi-giga amounts of data, especially on slower systems, slower virus scanners, etc. Sometimes during a busy schedule all we want to do is a quick scan, but where do we aim the anti virus program? Internet browsers, email platforms, downloaded or otherwise new files, program files: these seem to be likely places where viruses would be placed. What about Windows, or Windows/System? Other places?? |
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| 16939 | 2001-08-13 21:51:00 | If your running..ie nortons anti it runs in the back ground and works fine.covers the whole system if kept updated. | Guest (0) | ||
| 16940 | 2001-08-13 21:51:00 | If your running..ie nortons anti it runs in the back ground and works fine.covers the whole system if kept updated. | Guest (0) | ||
| 16941 | 2001-08-14 05:13:00 | If you are using NAV (and probably most of the others) you can configure it to scan all incoming, opened or run files automatically. If you want to scan a particular file, folder or drive at any time, you should be able to right-click it in Explorer, and choose 'Scan with Norton...' | Guest (0) | ||
| 16942 | 2001-08-14 10:04:00 | From personal experience those stupid Shockwave animations that people like to send around (EXEs). Setting it to scan program files only will speed it up, although you've probably done this. In McAfee, atleast from the command prompt, you can write checksums for the files, so the scanner can easily check if the file has changed, of course the file has to be virus free first. |
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