What I was saying was; that at times, when you A the "New Hardware
wizard" popping-up to re-install the service, could indicate that "Volume
Shadow Copy" had [at that point] been un-registered.
However, obviously, if you are using the System Restore or NT Backup
utilities normally, then the "Volume Shadow Copy" service is registered
properly.
Nonetheless, it could indicate some malware / virus on the system, even
if the I effect of having to re-install the service doesn't happen all the
time and is quite intermittent. I still recommend that you do a [full]
scan with MRT.exe and Malwarebytes as soon as is practicable

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
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In message , Twayne
writes:
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Having read all your reponses to date here, it sounds very much like you

Are you sure you have done so, because:
1. it is not my AV, but the OS's own trap, that is objecting. You know
how when you add new hardware, and the system asks for a driver, and you
load the driver that came with it, as often as not you get a popup
warning you that said driver is not "Microsoft signed" or something like
that. What was happening was that - despite not having added any new
hardware - the "new hardware found" thing was popping up (saying the new
hardware was this "... shadow copy"), and when I let it find drivers for
it, the "not signed" box popped up.
2. I already had several restore points present; presumably the shadow
copy thing must have already been there in order to make those. So why is
it popping up again?
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just won't do it. A good firewall (ZoneAlarm?), a good AV package (not

I have a firewall (plus what's in the routers of course).

Avira) and good malware detectors are the "norm" for protection. Some
will
claim that programs like Super AntiMalware & such are all that's needed;
don't beleive them. Many programs may catch many of them, but no single
program yet will catch all of them; there are just too many of them and
increasing every day.

Agreed. (How many of each [AV, firewall, detector] - and which ones - do
_you_ run?)

HTH,

Twayne`





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