On May 8, 1:19 pm, "Kerry Brown" <k...@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m> wrote:[color=blue]
> "drogan88" <droga...@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1178644208.752655.293730@e51g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
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> > 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.[/color]
>
> It sounds virus like. What antivirus solution are you using? Have you
> scanned for viruses?
>
> --
> Kerry Brown
> Microsoft MVP - Shell/Userhttp://www.vistahelp.ca[/color]

Which antivirus is the best and recommended. I am using whatever
shipped in VISTA.