"drogan88" <drogan88@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
news:1178644208.752655.293730@e51g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...[color=blue]
> VISTA has been changing the actual file size of some of my
> program .exe files such that they generate Runtime error R6002 and
> terminate. For example, cubase.exe has clean install file size of
> 10,000,000 bytes. After a few hours or a few days cubase.exe does not
> run anymore and has a filesize of 10,000,512 bytes. This also happened
> with quicktime.exe and a few other files. I can copy the
> original .exes back into the affected directories and the programs run
> again but they keep getting changed for some reason. I have turned off
> indexing, system restore and almost every other service I can think
> of. Any help would be appreciated. This happens on my VISTA Business
> partition and also happened once I updated XPSP2 partition with all of
> the current microsoft updates. I wonder if it has something to do with
> some new updated features in both VISTA and XPSP2 but I dot know.
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It sounds virus like. What antivirus solution are you using? Have you
scanned for viruses?

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Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
[url]http://www.vistahelp.ca[/url]