Ah, I understand you now..... I also have experienced this and similar
sorts of behaviours. I'm afraid, again, I have no explanation at the
moment for it.

This is because it hadn't happened to me recently, and I have to be able to
reproduce the sequence of events that lead to getting a particular
errormessage in order for me to investigate it.

This is so I can then query the system to which processes are involved and
what software/hardware conflicts may be happening. I can only do such
things while the error is "in progress".

But I will certainly keep it in mind so that if it ever happens on my
system again, I will attempt to identify it's cause for you.....

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

P.S. I must assure you, however, again, that the service "Volume Shadow
Copy" or VSS (Volume Snapshot Service) is definitely a normal part of every
version of Windows since WinXP Service Pack 2 and Server 2003.


"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
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In message , Tim Meddick
writes:
I'm afraid I just can't answer that, it's a question more about your
Anti-Virus / Anti-Malware program than about the WinXP OS!

But the fact is that the Volume Shadow Copy Service has always been a
feature of NT systems - set to automatic start by default.

I would question the effectiveness of my Anti-Virus / Anti-Malware
software if such a genuine element of the Window's OS is being returned
as in any way bogus by it!

No, not at all: the AV didn't object to it at all. It's just that, while
running an AV scan, (a) the "new hardware found" thing popped up twice,
(b) when I told it (the new hardware thing) to proceed to the next stage,
it (again, the normal Windows self-protecting thing) said that what I was
about to allow - i. e. the driver it had found for this phantom new
hardware - wasn't Microsoft signed. That latter is particularly puzzling,
this Shadow Copy thing being as you have explained part of the system.
(From what I found on line, others get the same thing, though.)

Such behaviour of "spotting" viruses / malware where there isn't any is a
feature of Malware itself.....
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(No, that wasn't what was happening.)

(FWIW all AV found were two instances of some HTML code that matched some
Trojan.)
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