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Old December 19th 17, 01:13 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Mark Twain wrote:
There is no Kapersky folder/file ... I
tried again with the same results.

I didn't think to do this before but I
took pics this time to show you. At first
it flashes 'corrupted' which disappears
but when I click on Updates it's there
and the logo remains red versus green.

http://i67.tinypic.com/2j662yq.jpg

http://i66.tinypic.com/qxjxjb.jpg

http://i66.tinypic.com/14v4r5x.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/vfcs5t.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/2h56z3k.jpg


Robert


OK, your fourth picture says

Completed 17515 days ago

Yet your first picture shows your Kaspersky
folder was deleted. These two pictures don't
jibe with one another. It can only know about
"17515 days", if it has a Kaspersky folder with
some sort of info in it.

How many hard drives are in the computer at
the moment you boot the Kaspersky CD ?

The Kaspersky folder can be stored on *any* C:
drive. For example, I have a Win2K disk and a
WinXP disk in the computer. The Kaspersky folder
goes into the Win2K C: drive, even though I almost
never use it.

One thing the Kaspersky boot CD looks for, is a
pagefile.sys to use. That is used to hold the
Linux swap for the boot CD OS. It finds such files
on OS partitions. It searches the computer, looking
for the first pagefile it can find.

It puts the Kaspersky folder on that same partition.

In addition, it queries the registry of that selected
C: partition, to get "mountvol" info. That's how
it decides what drive letters to use for each partition.
So when it refers to C: as in your fourth picture.
that's the same C: it has the pagefile on, and it
should also be the same C: with the Kaspersky folder.

In my case, the letters it extracts from the Win2K
registry file, cause the disk I want to scan to be
called E: . Which is not someone would predict in
advance. As a result, the letter choices shown by
Kaspersky should be treated with suspicion, until
you verify which partition is which by looking at the
partition contents.

In your fifth picture, it shows the "corrupt" status.
The database date is 12/15/2017. So the database that
picture is using, is from when you were fooling around
a few days ago (with the "bad" CD).

Make *sure* you've removed the Kaspersky folder
from the top level of all OS C: partitions.

If you have your backup drive connected, maybe it's
finding a folder on there.

Then try your Mar 2017 CD version again.

Paul
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