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Originally Posted by caveman
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.
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Boot sector virus infections should be picked up via a normal scan anyway, what behaviour changes are you seeing? With the NAV icon it could just be that it is working but SP2 is reporting otherwise by mistake. Was NAV installed prior to SP2 as I think that symantec released a patch for it ??
Other than that you check by running msconfig as to what is actually running on start up on your pc.
BTW, aren't the NAV CDs bootable so that you can run scans etc before booting into windows
