MPSAN, since you have limited memory, have you tried running the Full Scan. with no other programs running in real time ? IOW, close off other programs and running Full Scan on it's own. That may give you enough ram to complete the scan.
IOW? Actually, someone in a backup forum suggested that I may have some bad blocks on my drive that cause some programs like True Image, and a full scan to hang!
There is another thread here for 64 bit Win 7, I think, but I did not want to hijack that any more.
I tried some settings and my system no longer hung. The hung resulted in No KB or Mouse action that would fix the issue. So, I tried various settings and the HANG went away. The only thing I could do to resolve this hang was a RESET. Now I know what IS causing this.
I had turned off SCANS and all was OK again for several days.
Now, I tried a manual FULL Scan and after about 600,000 + items scanned it locks the system up again!
It seems like NIS is finding that there is a file that is too large to scan (i doubt it) or is locked somehow!
SO, is there a way I can try a scan from perhaps SAFE Mode? Will Power Eraser help? The system IS running OK EXCEPT when Norton does a full scan, which I have disabled for now!
Well, something else is going on here. I had only 1 program running...just a small clipboard program. I did stop a few processes like a large True Image Moniter. It Scanned 662,807 files and froze. My HDD is fine as I checked it with a good 3rd party boot disk. I am starting to wonder if 1 GB of memory is not enough for this system any more.
I did just take a full image and was thinking of getting rid of stuff I no longer want...decrapify...and see if it matters. I always have the image to restore if I want to!
Programs are becoming more ram intensive. Not Norton, of course !, but if you can fit more ram into your machine, I'd certainly recommend it. Ram is cheap and enables you to multitask, if you so wish. Even 4GB of ram is considered average, nowadays.
Programs are becoming more ram intensive. Not Norton, of course !, but if you can fit more ram into your machine, I'd certainly recommend it. Ram is cheap and enables you to multitask, if you so wish. Even 4GB of ram is considered average, nowadays.
Well, I did rescan with the Compressed file scan off, and it was OK.
I have this system I built VERY much over clocked and have very high speed RAM (at the time). SO, it has large RAM heatsinks and I may not be able to add 1 GB more. Still, I know someone who has an extra pair that I can try to see if they will even fit. That would at least get me up to 2 GB.
Well, I did rescan with the Compressed file scan off, and it was OK.
Hi MPSAN:
marco58 just reported here that N360 scans are locking their XP computer when the scan reaches "Checking for W32.Downadup.B". Do you recall if your system was hanging when scans were checking for one particular virus signature when you had Compressed File Scan turned on?
------------ MS Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP2 * Firefox 25.0 * IE 9.0 * NIS 2013 v. 20.4.0.40 HP Pavilion dv6835ca, Intel Core2Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83 GHz, 3.0 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
Well, I did rescan with the Compressed file scan off, and it was OK.
Hi MPSAN:
marco58 just reported here that N360 scans are locking their XP computer when the scan reaches "Checking for W32.Downadup.B". Do you recall if your system was hanging when scans were checking for one particular virus signature when you had Compressed File Scan turned on?
------------ MS Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP2 * Firefox 25.0 * IE 9.0 * NIS 2013 v. 20.4.0.40 HP Pavilion dv6835ca, Intel Core2Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83 GHz, 3.0 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
No, when I had the compressed file scanning on, it went well beyond that phase and was just checking files. At over 630,000 files checked it just froze!