(OT) Open Source Virus Scanner

[Bill Horne]

paul.cour1-H+0wwilmMs3R7s880joybQ at public.gmane.org wrote:
>    Hello
>    Have a Win XP machine that performed excellently for
>    5 years.
>    Past 4-5 days it has slowed to a crawl, and must be infected...
>    Ran Spy Bot and Clamwin Virus Scanners without finding anything (???)
>    Any suggestions on Open Source Virus Scanner or technique ???
>    Note: have Linux boxen that performs O. K. (chuckle!)...
>    regards
> __

Paul,

Download Process Explorer from the Microsoft Sysinternals site, and use 
it to find all non-MS processes running in the machine. Kill them, then 
run the virus scan.

The site is 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx. HTH.

Bill Horne

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