What's "Generic volume shadow copy"?
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"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
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In message , "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
writes:
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 ...
Hmm. Done so; it seems to be something to do with System Restore, or
similar. And at least one other person encountered it while doing a system
scan - though no-one (that I've found so far) has explained either (a) why
it's popping up at random, or (b) why, if it's a Microsoft thing anyway,
it says it hasn't been checked.
(AVIRA finished a scan, and is now doing another one - or, is scanning a
different part of the system. It says it's found 2 "Detections", the last
being "HTML/Rce.Gen", which it says isn't very dangerous. I can't ask it
what the other one is - could be just the EICAR test virus which I know I
have on here somewhere and is by definition harmless. Avira says 24.3%
done on this pass.)
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