Mark Twain wrote:
I only have the 1 HD in the computer and I
do not attach external HD's unless I'm doing
backups and there are no flash keys attached.

Here's my partitions........

http://i68.tinypic.com/333h5x4.jpg

I've already removed all the Kapersky files,
that I'm aware of, if there are more I do not
know where they are. Perhaps I should use Agent
Ransack to find them?

How can a newly made CD be bad?

The only CD I have is the last one I
made from your link.

Robert

When you used Imgburn, the disc contents were verified
against the ISO file, to ensure correct-ness. So it passed
and the disc isn't corrupted.

A disc could obviously read bad a second time, if it was
marginal. But the verify runs at "max speed", and
gives the disk data a good workout. If the data was
marginal, there's a good chance the problem would
show up during the verify.

All I can tell you is, the Mar 2017 disc I used, said
the database was "obsolete", not "corrupted", and obsolete
means it can be repaired by a download. I'm not really
sure why the disc cannot download fresh copies of any
"corrupted" files.

If you look at how the Kaspersky disc works, it's very
careful with those files. It scans them for trouble.
It verifies the checksum on each file.

If you examine the contents of the "bases" folder on
the ISO, it uses crypto, presumably to prevent an AV
competitor from stealing the database contents. There have
been cases before, where another company steals the
files. To stop that, Kaspersky used to put "extra"
"bogus" definitions in a file, to trip up a competitor.

The disc contents consist of two key parts.

1) A set of URLs, as to which server or servers to
contact to get update files. On some days, you may
find there is an extra delay, before files are downloaded,
and this is the Kaspersky CD having to check the alternate
servers for files.

If you don't have the correct URLs, then the CD won't
be able to do any updates at all.

2) The "bases" folder has several hundred files which
represent all the virus definitions. But the assembly
of such is tricky, and I don't know of an easy way to
do "surgery" to remove just the wrong thing. If the error
message said which file was bad, things might be different.

And since the CD refuses to "correct" just the corrupted
part, that doesn't suggest that deleting "Bases" on the ISO,
will do any good. The stupid thing will probably stop
dead if you do that.

The bases folder gets copied to the C:\Kaspersky folder
the first time the CD is used. In your case, you did clean
things out properly, so it's not like the bad files were
left behind. That means I'm out of things to try.

*******

If you're getting bored with Kaspersky, this is another freebie.
I think I've only tried this the one time. This one comes closer
to filling a CD, at 667MB.

https://www.bitdefender.com/support/...ue-cd-627.html

http://download.bitdefender.com/resc...-rescue-cd.iso

Paul