[pchelpers] Re: 15 hour scan

Why is it, that AVG or otherrs, can find certain virus' but not heal or move
then?

Billy
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From: "PcCowboy" <saddle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "pchelper" <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 5:10 AM
Subject: [pchelpers] 15 hour scan


> A friend of my son was having trouble with his computer. So my son
> offered to look at it.
> After a while he came to me. It seems that everything kept locking down
> while trying to scan it.
> So I took out the hard-drive and slaved it to mine. The first thing I
> did was to scan the drive with AVG.
> Sure enough it found ws32.korgo in the c:\windows\system32 folder. Then
> it found another infected file, and another.
> It went like this  25..50..100..500..1000..2000 infected files. 2hours
> and 20000 infected files later I shut AVG down.
> Good thing to, cause AVG couldn't heal or move the files. I went to the
> net and found a removal tool for korgo.
> I ran it in safe mode and went to bed. Next morning it was still
> scanning in the "n"s. Came home for lunch and it was in the
> "T"s Came home at 5 and it was through. The report said that it had
> scanned a total of 105,000 files and had deleted
> 922,000 infected files. No wonder the computer was locking up on
> scanning, it was choking down. Do you all know
> how long it takes to open a folder with over 900,000 files? Each file
> was 12K and created on 7/4/2004. It is a good thing
> my computer had 1gig of ram.
>
> Pc
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