Virus Alert, help needed please?

Lizbetty

It didn't come up with any options, I can't remember the message but it just indicated it was sorting itself out. Is there anything I need to go into to amend that?

I'm about a third of the way through the scan now.

aliEnRIK

To change virtual memory settings

1. Open Computer Management.
2. In the console tree, right-click Computer Management (Local), and then select Properties.
3. On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings.
4. Under Virtual memory, click Change.
5. In the Drive list, click the drive that contains the paging file you want to change.

Change to 'windows managed' or however it says

aliEnRIK

To be honest, ive gotten 2 different threads slighly confused

How much physical RAM does your computer have?

Lizbetty

I have 448MB of RAM (from what it says omn the Properties part).

CureIt has stuck again a third of the way through... on C:\...mationMountPointmanagerRemoteDatabase if that means anything?

At the moment it's not doing anything. Same happened yesterday and when I tried to pause and restart it it said not responding.

GunJack

Slow or Low ?? If it's low, you need to alter the VM settings to System Managed size.

Computer - Control Panel - System - Advanced - Performance - Advanced - VM (for XP)

Lizbetty

GunJack wrote: »

Slow or Low ?? If it's low, you need to alter the VM settings to System Managed size.

Computer - Control Panel - System - Advanced - Performance - Advanced - VM (for XP)

The pc is very slow, but it says virtual memory is low. Will try this, thanks

GunJack

oops !! That'll teach me to refresh the page before posting

Lizbetty

Have done that GunJack.

Have just noticed that I can press pause and restart the CureIt programme and the buttons change coluor as if it's accepting the command, and the timer is still ticking away on the statistics page, and yet nothing else is moving. Which would indicate that it IS responding, it's just not moving from the file it was in the middle of checking.

I'm not sure whether to close it down and restart it or if there's somethnig I can do to jig it along. I'll await your advices before I start fiddling

GunJack

Leave well alone !! Some files will take longer than others to scan, and this is quite typical behaviour for some scanners

Lizbetty

Found this which seems to be a clue as to why it's sticking but I really don't understand it, lol.

Any ideas??