>Not VFP directly, so Chatter...
>
>My McAfee virus scan suddenly has stopped running at startup. This is Win2K SP2 with all security patches. Also IE6.
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>The last things that I did that *might* have some impact were:
>1) download (hardly volumtarily - the boss sent an e-mail that needed it) a non-MS 'player' of some kind to view a video attachment. I **think** it may also have forced a load of MS' latest Installer too.
>2) de-fragged my HD.
>
>Noticing that it didn't start at startup (fairly obvious because, since downloading a security patch about 6 months ago, it always hangs) I went to their site and downloaded the latest DAT. Didn't find any patches. I also played with various settings, getting failure notices on some of them. Strangely, when reviewing settings for "virusscan" (what starts at startup) it had a note that it is not supported on WinME, WinNT and Win2000, yet it had been starting up fine since install over a year ago.
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>I finally decided to UNinstall/reinstall the whole thing. Did so, also loading a patch and the latest DAT, rebooted, and still the same thing.
>
>Anyone seen this? Any rime or reason behind it?

Jim,
This is old (since April 17th) but might be it.
Check
HKEY_LoCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\windows\currentversion\run
and
HKEY_LoCAL_MACHINE\System\currentcontrolset\services
nodes. If you see entries starting with 'WinK' then it's win32.Klez virus. It disables the scanners as part of its infection.
If it's that check symantec, bitdefender sites for removal. Hope it's not.
Cetin