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Old November 26th 10, 05:26 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Twayne[_2_]
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Default What's "Generic volume shadow copy"?

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J. P. Gilliver (John) typed:
I'm doing a complete system scan at the moment (AVIRA is my
AV). I'm doing it after a restart, because my
email-and-news software (Turnpike, quite old) behaved oddly
once or twice.
It may have nothing to do with that fact, but twice a "new
hardware found" popup has appeared, and when I let it
proceed to the point where it tells me what the new
hardware actually is, it has said "Generic volume shadow
copy". (I cancel it at that point.)
I haven't added any new hardware (it's a netbook, with
nothing plugged into it other than the power supply at the
moment). I _have_ added a "subst" into my startup sequence,
but that was a few days ago, and the popups have only
appeared on this session.
Any idea what it is? It _sounds_ as if it just might be
malware, but I'm fairly careful, and have never had any in
decades of computing. (Avira says it's done 41.3% - scanned
47215 objects - so far, and not found anything.)

I'll just go to Google it ...


Have you tried any of the many spyware and malware programs around? Search
back on this group for recommendations or simply ask the question for whiich
ones people use.
Avira, IMO is only mediocre in itis reliability and tends to false
positives IME, which are still repeatable in my last testing of it. It wants
to delete a legtimate setup.exe which lives in an unexpected folder and
that's the ONLY reason it wants to delete it. I notified them, they agreed
wtih me, promised to fix it, and never did.
AVG or AVAST are a couple decent freebies you can try out for AV work
that's better than Avira. There are other freebie AV programs too and a good
chance some will pipe in to offer their suggestions, same as with malware
detectors.

Having read all your reponses to date here, it sounds very much like you
have malware aboard. Regardless of how "safe" you think you are with
surfing, there are just too many ways to become infected; safe hex alone
just won't do it. A good firewall (ZoneAlarm?), a good AV package (not
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.

HTH,

Twayne`





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