Virus/Spyware question

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Hi Everyone...I have a couple of questions. I use xpsp2, home edition.

Can viruses and spyware infect any and all drives on your pc or is it
basically the main drive (in my case c:) where you are in when you receive
the culprit from the web, etc. I would think a virus can give itself any
instructions it wants to, once in your system. Dunno about spyware.

On this line of thought is it necessary for me to scan both my c-drive and
my d-drive with my virus scanner (which it does unless I set it not to, and
it takes a long time), or would scanning c: be good enough. My d-drive is
the partition for the windows recovery system on my xp (and that's all that
is in there), but it takes a long time for the d: scan also.

Regarding spyware, Spysweeper and Ad-Aware check in c: only (by default)
when scanning files, but I can set them to check d: also. Don't know what
SpyBot does because it puts up indiscernible *** in the progress window,
and I don't see any setup menus in SpyBot for setting the drives to be
scanned.

Please try to address my questions separately (one for viruses, and one for
spyware). Basically I am asking would it be safe to just scan my c-drive.
Thanks...Pete


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