Re: AVG free Scan
- From: "cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)" <cquirkenews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:47:13 +0200
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:35:12 -0500, "MAP"
>newbie wrote:
>> While scanning my PC, Windows XP pro with AVG 7 free version I got
>> the following results:
>>
>> 1) Partition Table (MBR) Reading Error
>>
>> 2) Boot Sector of Disk C Reading Error
>> What does these two reading error means and how do I rectify them?
>It means that these 2 sectors are protecred operating system files (and the
>scanner could not open them) and is nothing to be concerned with.This is
>common with anti-virus scans however not all scanners will tell you this
>which is why you have not seen it before.
Boot records aren't files, and I'd expect to see this all the time if
it was just the generic Windows protection against low-level disk
access that was at work here.
So I'd check whether BIOS "boot virus protection" is in effect via
CMOS Setup. I'd expect that to protect MBR, but less so C:'s boot
record; for that, I'd wonder about a co-resident antivirus or similar.
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