Fix The Damn Client!

You may have an overly full hard drive, this can make things like virus scans take a long time if there are a huge number of files, and very little room for the virus program to work in.

If that is the case perhaps you can delete as few full length DVDs you never even watched or free up some space in a similar fairly painless manner.

AVG does indeed produces a fair number of false positives.

I haven't used the Trend Micro program for a while but when I did it seemed like a worthwhile thing to do.

You could be getting such sluggish response because of fragmentation, or you might have bad sectors on the hard drive that are slowing things down. Chkdsk /r can deal with bad sectors to some degree.

It's a pain when you have these possibly multiple problems.

Don't format your hard drive unless you have an installation disk for your system. Look for it and make sure it is undamaged before you do the format. I personally would try to avoid reformatting but that may be just my squeamishness.

If it takes *days* to run a virus scan.....even a defrag.........the very last thng I would think that would the problem would be a program that is not running at the time of the scan. Unless the SL client is running at the time of the scan there is no way it could slow a virus scan down.

But, then again, this crappy SL client makes my Grandfather clock chime off key.......so maybe it is the cause.

If you are going to go to the trouble of reformating your hard drive and have to reinstall everything then do it right....wipe the disk. Search for "killdisk" before to do anything and follow the instructions for downloading a bootable CD. Mark it well since our computer will boot up to the killdisk program if you accidently restart it while it's in your drive!!! I think Download.com has it too. As Suzanne said, make sure you have the CD's in hand before you get going in that direction........or you'll be stuck with a completely useless hunk of electronics until you get copies of it to install.

Be prepared for a very, very long process.........the larger the hard drive the longer the process. Last time I did it took just at 12 hours for a 120 gig HD. But, at the end you can be confident you have a clean drive to start fresh with. Virus' can survive formats........they can't wipes.

I requote myself............Shall I for the chicken alts that don`t post with their main name......



These days if one is on sl they tell you there are number of issues going on...... Now don`t you look silly If you read my post correctly ( which that person didnt ) you would have noticed that i did not say anything about what but this. Now I hope you paid for that alt because you know llabs needs the money for money computers right.... Kids these days

My partner and I have 3 computers that are connected to the net 24 hours a day. He is a big computer geek. I'm on SL much of that while I'm surfing anywhere and everywhere. He is downloading constantly on peer to peer services. Never, and I repeat never do we ever have a problem with viruses and shareware. Why? First we stay away from Norton Anti Virus and run the free version of AVG. It's the best. In addition to running that every night we keep our spyware cleaning house all the time.

Viruses are out there and they do wreak havoc, but when things go wrong people are too quick too automatically assume that's what the problem is.

True, but where does the first poster remark he uses P2P?

I was responding to the later comments not the original question which I felt had been answered.

wel this topic is way off topic.......Nowonder there is confusion

Yep I run no virus protection at all for years after discovering that my spare virus protected PC announced it had found and cleaned 6 new virus's apparently contracted while sitting on the floor unplugged for 5 months.
Damn virus's must have crawled across the carpet to it tojumped from the main PC............
But I just delete any email I don't know the sender, and disabled the preview pane which is how most get a foot in the door.

Yer quite welcome!

You'd be amazed how crafty these things are.

Thank you for sharing your observations, Usagi. Your position has been noted.

Depends.

If you do a total "reformat", as in starting from a blank hard drive, it should be fine. If a virus writes itself into the BIOS? Yer screwed.

You could even go as far as removing RAM, removing the motherboard's battery.

Sadly, the smartest ones seem to be the virus writers. Who knows what they'll think up next!!

1 word. or 2: Disk Image.

Norton's Ghost for example.

Install Windows. No connection to Internet. Make an Image, or copy, of your hard drive. Save it elsewhere.

I do this about once a month. Comes in quite handy in case of an emergency. Then I just re-image and have a system back to where it was when I did the image. It beats having to reinstall countless GB's of stuff.

i don't i use iTunes for my music

guys, im back in, viruses are taken care of the inventory is crap,. but i guess the assets are being worked on.

that was a joke, i ment that avg likes to run slow sometimes, but this was before i added a ram stick, its called over-dramatize, i was joking.

also, the problem is solved can we pleasze drop ths topic, or let it slide to the bottom of the forum?, its getting out of hand

Be careful with that kind of joking, you have no idea what techs have actually seen happen.