Re: Followup re AntiVirus Scanners; Nod32, Kaspersky, etc

_RR wrote on Fri, 17 Jun 2005:

>Nod32's control panel also allows temp-disabling of 'AMON,' their file
>monitoring program. I would love to know how to do the same with
>DMON, EMON and IMON as well. Their disable buttons caution that their
>entries will be removed from the registry. I presume that would
>require a reinstall. Anyone know about this?

Hi _RR

I run the current full version (2.5) and only use AMON and the on-demand
scanner. I have the other modules turned off. For IMON and EMON, this
just unloads them, and enabling them again is simply a matter of
clicking on a Start button.

DMON when you disable it does give a warning that it will be
"unregistered from the system", but I have just tried this out in your
honour :-) and it doesn't seem to be so. After rebooting DMON wasn't
running but I enabled it again just by clicking on Start, no reinstall
needed.

>Another couple NOD32 anomalies: It sometimes reports "Error occurred
>while scanning active boot sector of the 1 physical disk." (or the "4
>physical disk"). Not sure what that's about, as I've run chkdsk
>several times w no problems reported.

This one used to drive me crazy wondering if there was something dire
wrong with my HD until I found what it was. . . NOD32 was trying to look
at a Zip disk and there was no disk in the drive. When it starts up the
scanner tries to look at the boot sector of *all* your disks. Does this
make sense for you? Do you have a Zip or similar drive?

>Also, NOD32 often reports problems opening some ZIP or RAR files. It
>seems to get to others OK. Not sure why it would be inconsistent.

I do sometimes get reports of "archive damaged" when I do a scan, though
WinZip has no problem with the file. I don't know why this is. . . in
fact I think I'll email Eset about it and find out :-) I can vouch for
the fact that their tech support is very good and very fast.

I've been using NOD32 for three years now and am very happy with it.
It's fast, light on resources, very frequent automatic updates and
excellent detection. Hope this helps!

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Nightowl
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