Norton Antivirus Quickscan of startup files

[Guest]

Does anyone know what Norton Antivirus Quickscan is looking at when it
reports that it is scanning "startup files"? My laptop has an inordinate
number of these (>700; perhaps left over from an old installation or
something) and I would like to reduce the count but NAV doesn't report the
pathnames during this phase of the scan.

 

[Malke]

Does anyone know what Norton Antivirus Quickscan is looking at when it
reports that it is scanning "startup files"? My laptop has an
inordinate number of these (>700; perhaps left over from an old
installation or something) and I would like to reduce the count but
NAV doesn't report the pathnames during this phase of the scan.

http://castlecops.com/f80-Norton_Anti_Virus.html - forum for Symantec
products at CastleCops

Malke

 

[Plato]

Does anyone know what Norton Antivirus Quickscan is looking at when it
reports that it is scanning "startup files"? My laptop has an inordinate
number of these (>700; perhaps left over from an old installation or

Seems they misnamed the "Quickscan" thingamajig.

 

[Jim]

Quickscan basically scans "common load points" for security threats.
Mainly services, the startup folder, and the Run registry keys.

 

[Guest]

Something changed in this area from NAV2005 to NAV2006 without any signficant
changes in my configuration. NAV2005 was reporting around 110 of these
thingies while NAV2006's count is more than 700. Any idea of actual pathnames
or file suffixes that I could search for and delete?