If you're saying that it's taking days to run a scanner, then something is seriously wrong. I don't know if you mean it's running in the BG all the time, or this happens when you do a manual scan and it takes this long to scan your files. If the latter, then you're HD may be screwed up. Do a chkdsk or scandisk of each HD and or partition. I don't recall how to do this in ME, I think you right click each drive or partition in "My computer" and then "tools", then you'll see the error checking button. If you haven't defrag'd yet then do that as well.
Also run scandisk in DOS and let it also do the long version. If that doesn't fix the problem, then I'd seriously recommend you run some HD benchmarks and post the results. Sandra diagnostics, HDtach and AIDA32 (its HD tests are under "plugins") are all free and you can find them at any search engine. It would also be a good idea to run the HD manufacturer's diagnostics which you get from their website. You should first of course be sure you have no malware on the HD since if you do the results could be tainted. -Clint God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In a message dated 9/3/2004 5:41:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time, orpheuscomputing.com writes: > You can get AVG free from their website. I tried to do that right after I got the new hard drive about 16 months ago and couldn't get it. Update: Anti-spyware has been running for just under a solid 2.5 days now and it's only gone up to 16200 files!! When I left for work this morning at 7:00 a.m. it was up to about 15200, when I came home at 5:15 p.m. it was up to almost 15800!! Looks like it'll be another three or four days before it's done. At least it finally found something. Dale ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
