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Old Sep 16, 2007 | 07:44 PM
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Default Locked files during virus scan ??

When doing a full in depth scan off my pc using Nod32 I am getting no virus detected but notice that a few off the files could not be read due to being locked, should I be worried about these particular locked files or are all these files all fairly normall ??
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Old Sep 16, 2007 | 10:43 PM
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Probably Windows files or temp files that are in use. Probably nothing to worry about, post the filenames if you want more info.

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Old Sep 17, 2007 | 06:08 AM
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Always does that. I suspect that other AVs can't read them either, but only NOD32 points out it can't. One of the files is the Page File, the others I can't remember, but I think are major Windows operating files.


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Old Sep 17, 2007 | 07:25 AM
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Always does that. I suspect that other AVs can't read them either, but only NOD32 points out it can't. One of the files is the Page File, the others I can't remember, but I think are major Windows operating files.


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Okay thanks guys really appreciatte the info / advice, so you reckon that if the full in depth scan comes back as clean then these locked files should be clean as well then ??
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Old Sep 17, 2007 | 08:19 AM
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It's fine.
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