Norton Internet Security / Norton AntiVirus

[mtsalmela80]

I just bought Antivirus 2008. I bought it to protect my new Pc, however my old one is infected with something. My question is, if I map a drive to the OS drive of the old PC from my new one, and perform a full scan on it, is it just as effective as performing the drive scan locally on the actual machine.

Is there any disadvantage to scanning a network drive that may make it miss something?

thanks!

[Stu]

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mtsalmela80 wrote:

I just bought Antivirus 2008. I bought it to protect my new Pc, however my old one is infected with something. My question is, if I map a drive to the OS drive of the old PC from my new one, and perform a full scan on it, is it just as effective as performing the drive scan locally on the actual machine.

Is there any disadvantage to scanning a network drive that may make it miss something?

thanks!

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It should be just as effective, but I'm not sure if NAV is ableto do it

[MelodicWynd]

hi mtsalmela - i would have some concern with connecting a potentially virus infected system to your network, although I would agree with Stu that there should be no limited program functionality - with the real-time scanner not loading, i'm not sure if you di find something that you'd be able to get it out without booting into safe mode anyway... plus, it seems unnecessarily dicey... you do have mulitple licenses with 2008 - might just try to get it installed on the infected machine and get a scan done if possible - otherwise, this article seems to have an alternative that might work.

good luck,

mel 

[reese_anschultz]

For simply scanning and cleaning up infected files, scanning the mapped drive is fine. Don't forget, though, that the remediation for most malware today is much more than just cleaning up files. Most malware creates registry entries and injects itself into numerous start-up points. It's probably best to first scan and repair on the infected system and then double-check the scan by scanning remotely.