One more thing to check

[The Horny Goat]

Shortly before leaving for work this morning I went downstairs to
check e-mail and found Norton auto-protect disabled.

On a broadband router this is generally a sign that virus infection is
imminent

So I disconnect my network cable and resolve to check it out when I
get home - leaving a sign on the monitor saying not to re-connect the
cable. I get home tonight and my cable is connected and my wife says
she just re-connected it since she needed to check her e-mail!

Needless to say my reaction is volcanic and then I notice that tiny
little Norton icon in the system tray next to the time! (I also notice
she has switched accounts to hers which is restricted under WinXP Home
/ Norton AV 2004)

I figure the damage is already done at this point so I let her finish
and then power down and reboot the system. Win XP wants to check my C
drive and sure enough finds cross-linked files. It resolves the
problem by copying the offending sector and finishes the 'Scandisk'
(which I assume everyone here knows has nothing to do with viruses).

It finds three more files cross-linked two of which have "Symantec" or
"Norton" in their name. By this time my eyes are starting to bug out a
bit!

I log in under my account and notice the Norton icon says "disabled"
which is interesting since when I went to work this morning it was
absent altogether. After about a minute it comes up "Norton Anti-Virus
Auto-Protect Enabled"

MORAL: After you disconnect the network cable, don't forget to let
Scandisk do it's thing. What seems to be a virus may just be
cross-linked files.....

 

[Duane Arnold]

I don't think Norton going ballistic with it missing, enabled or disabled
had anything to do with cross-linked files or some virus taking it out.

I used Norton and what you explained happened with Norton more than a few
times on my machines behind a router.

I call the Live-Update the Death-Update as it killed Norton on the machines
as well.

Duane

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

Bitstring <[email protected]>, from the

I figure the damage is already done at this point so I let her finish
and then power down and reboot the system. Win XP wants to check my C
drive and sure enough finds cross-linked files. It resolves the
problem by copying the offending sector and finishes the 'Scandisk'
(which I assume everyone here knows has nothing to do with viruses).

Sounds like you are running FAT32 file system? If that's the case, you
really would avoid a lot of grief for yourself if you switched to NTFS
(but DON'T just tell XP to convert, go read about how to do it properly
first, or you may wind up with daft cluster sizes).