Thanks Cetin.

I seem to be clean as far as Klez is concerned.

I went out and bought version 6.0 and am installing it now (McAfee).



>>Not VFP directly, so Chatter...
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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