WTF - new installation?

[Hairy Lethal]

AVG AntiVirus Free Edition

http://free.grisoft.com/

Many thanks, I have already downloaded and will try to install this evening.

 

[Hairy Lethal]

AVG AntiVirus Free Edition

Bad advice if this is to be used in a corporate environment.
Besides... AVG detection is very poor!

For private use only.

NAV detects nothing on my computer!

 

[Hairy Lethal]

Did you check your configuration?

Have you tried to scan just 1 file?
Sounds like a corrupted install.
Try again.

Hi Max. I have removed NAV and re-installed - no difference.
I have removed firewall and re-installed NAV - no difference.
I have used GHOST.EXE to restore "first install" - NAV = no difference.
I have checked hidden files/directories attributes - no difference.
I have converted the drive to NTFS - no difference.
I have not yet given the laptop a flying lesson, but I am close :-(

 

[Hairy Lethal]

More details please.

How is the HD partitioned?
How are the partitions formatted?
What size is the HD?

If the C drive is greater than 128GB is 48-bit LBA enabled?

Is this a custom built PC or bought from a retailer?

"Bought" laptop HP notepad - 550MHz, 256MHz RAM pentium processor.
Operating system is (legal/registered) Windoze XP (SP2) full install.
(used FDISK from Win98 start diskette to format HD)
HD is 17Gbytes FAT32 (have also tried NTFS - no difference)
Single partition for whole 17Gbytes.
No mods to computer.
Using internal mouse, keyboard sound, DVD-rom/floppy, etc.

Can stuff CRUZER Mico in USB port and scan that for viruses, including the
whole directory structure - can be seen on NAV opening SCAN window. Can
expand directories to "check" files or directories I want to check. Can NOT
do this with hard disk. All I see is "C: (Hairy)" and no directory
structure.

 

[Hairy Lethal]

This may be a silly question; but you did install XP to the C:\ drive on

your system didn't you? Another problem could be if the drive is a
compressed drive, or a drive that has been PGP'ed or other wise encrypted

NOT a silly question, but yes I did install XP on the (only) hard disk - C:\
Drive is not compressed. Have tried both FAT32 and NTFS.

No it has definitely not been PGPed or otherwise encrypted.

 

[Alan Pollock]

Hi all,
New Windoze XP (SP2) installation.

Norton antivirus corporate edition cannot find anything in C: drive!

Completed:
Time: 09 seconds
Files: 0

Any ideas?
De-installed firewall - same
Re-installed NAV - same

What happens when you right-click on the Windows folder in the filemanager and
choose to NAV scan it from the context-sensitive menu? Nex