"drogan88" <drogan88@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
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> On May 8, 1:19 pm, "Kerry Brown" <k...@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m> wrote:[color=green]
>> "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.
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There is no antivirus that ships with Vista. Windows Defender is included
but it is an antispyware program. Someone mentioned Avast. It is good. AVG
is another free option. I use Nod32.

[url]http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5[/url]

[url]http://www.eset.com/[/url]

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