clamwin

[Guest]

hello, hope someone out there can help,
ok, i had clamwin virus scan installed on my pc and recently did a spysweep
with the webroot one, and it came up with clamwin as having a rootkit, got
some info of the net about this and was nothing to worry about, but now have
uninstalled it, i cannot remove the last file, the error message says access
denied make sure the disc is not full or write protected and so on, tried
safe mode and same message.
the folder says it's empty so prob not doing any harm but just want to get
rid of it.

 

[mikkl]

hello, hope someone out there can help,
ok, i had clamwin virus scan installed on my pc and recently did a spysweep
with the webroot one, and it came up with clamwin as having a rootkit, got
some info of the net about this and was nothing to worry about, but now have
uninstalled it, i cannot remove the last file, the error message says access
denied make sure the disc is not full or write protected and so on, tried
safe mode and same message.
the folder says it's empty so prob not doing any harm but just want to get
rid of it.

have you tried the ClamWin forums and support options?

mikkl

 

[Guest]

i have contacted clamwin by email but have onyl had an automated reply at the
moment, have also searched the forum but could find no info.
why do they need to have such file "protection" in the first place, i read
it was to stop important files being deleted, yet i have had other free virus
scanners and beeen able to delete all the files when i didn't want the
program anymore. will post back here when i get the email of clamwin.

 

[mikkl]

will post back here when i get the email of clamwin.

I look forward to their recommendations.

Another thought. If you go to sysinternals.com and download their tool
Autoruns, you can see every file that loads during startup, including dlls
and the like.

I suspect that there is a registry entry which is referencing the directory
you are attempting to delete. Look through the long list of files that
Autoruns finds. You can disable the loading of any given entry by
unchecking the box next to the entry. If you can find a line pointing to
the file/directory of interest, disable the entry, close autoruns and
reboot. You may then be able to delete the folder.

Once you have confirmed that this works correctly, you can then use
Autoruns to delete the registry entry you have disabled.

Now, of course, you realize that this is editing the registry. All the
normal cautions about backing up your system apply. Personally, I use
ERUNT (Google is your friend) for backing up the registry hives.

HTH,

mikkl