Hi Group,
I'm running NIS 2009 (upgraded from 2008 ~ 26 July 2009), GHOST 14 (upgraded from 2008 CD version, ~ 26 July 2009) and NSW Basic 14 (upgraded from NSW 2005 version ~26 July 2009) -- all on a 2004 Toshiba laptop, Win XP SP3, 80GB HDD (~23GB used).
For about the last 2-weeks I'm having problems getting GHOST 14 to work properly.
25 July 2009, my computer got clobbered by something, while on a MySpace page (using FF 3.5.1). Screen suddenly went blank. Power button still on. Had to unplug to turn off. [I'm still on NIS 2008 and GHOST 2008 CD version, at this point.]
When the computer restarted, GHOST showed-up in the System Tray as "at risk" -- though if you fully executed GHOST, it showed to be fine -- "checked," "backed-up."
After installing GHOST 2009 CD version and many un-installs (no "save")/re-installs of this, finally got rid of the "at risk" problem in the System Tray.
But, for about the last 2-weeks, GHOST still won't do an "incremental recovery point" save. Just goes to "1%" progress, and hangs.
I've run all kinds of full system scans, rootkit detectors, and chkdsk (HDD is fine). No malware found.
And, it now appears that at least some of the problem is that NIS is "blocking" GHOST.
Here's a Screen Shot of the NIS History Log showing an example of this, at Windows Start-Up -- just after my latest un/re-install of GHOST.
This "blocking" message in the Log occurs anytime Windows starts -- or anytime I try and execute GHOST from the SysTray (GHOST does come-up, though). Sometimes, when I did this execute, from the System Tray, I'd get (2) of these "blocked" messages, back-to-back, in the NIS Log.
Also, if I try and run GHOST by double-clicking on the .exe version in Program Files (Agent\VProSvc.exe), nothing at all happens -- GHOST will not execute.
This whole idea of NIS blocking GHOST is rather bizarre.
But... even more curious is this "Duplicate Object" thing, that appears in the NIS Log. What's with that? I'm not aware of any other "copies" of GHOST anywhere on my computer system. [Could upgrading from my earlier, 2008 CD GHOST version, to the 2009 CD version, be a problem here?]
I've pretty much given up on these un/re-install of GHOST attempts. Next, I guess I'll try and un/re-install NIS, too. Then re-install GHOST.
But, someone on the Forums said that un-installing NIS might be risky, if I have a rootkit, etc -- might not be able to get NIS installed again.
Would greatly appreciate any thoughts/comments on all this.
Kind Regards,
Robby