[pchelpers] Re: 15 hour scan

So you are saying it deleted about nine times as many files as it 
scanned? That's interesting.

PcCowboy wrote:

>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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