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caveman · 16-12-2004, 07:47

I've recently been infected and successfully dealt with a number of viruses. These were not spotted as I think the virus checker was disabled by one of them. However because of some small weird behaviour changes, I would like to check there are no viruses in boot sector. I run Norton 2004 AV but momentarily since SP2was installed an icon appears in taskbar saying I may not be protected and then NAV kicks in as enabled and the icon disappears.
Now that suggests to me (rightly or wrongly) that NAV is only checking from that moment, or has it already checked the boot sector of the boot drive and XP2 security centre is too hasty.

16-12-2004, 07:47	#6
caveman Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Romford, Essex Posts: 433	Re: Virus check boot sector I've recently been infected and successfully dealt with a number of viruses. These were not spotted as I think the virus checker was disabled by one of them. However because of some small weird behaviour changes, I would like to check there are no viruses in boot sector. I run Norton 2004 AV but momentarily since SP2was installed an icon appears in taskbar saying I may not be protected and then NAV kicks in as enabled and the icon disappears. Now that suggests to me (rightly or wrongly) that NAV is only checking from that moment, or has it already checked the boot sector of the boot drive and XP2 security centre is too hasty.