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Title: what is pagefile.sys will not open during virus scan
Post by: Katherine on 16.08.07, 20:03:02
I've been working for days, cleaning trojans off my pc.  My last report came back clean with the exception of 1 warning...pagefile.sys could not be opened..in use by another program.  Is this normal, or something I should be concerned about?  Please help

Thank You,
Katheirne



Title: Re: what is pagefile.sys will not open during virus scan
Post by: Dr.Nope on 17.08.07, 06:48:47
Pagefile.sys is the Windows (http://www.computerhilfen.com/explanation-w-Windows.html) swap-file, it's normal, the Virus (http://www.computerhilfen.com/explanation-v-Virus.html) scan can not open this file beacause it ist used by Windows. (http://www.computerhilfen.com/explanation-w-Windows.html)



Title: Re: what is pagefile.sys will not open during virus scan
Post by: nico on 06.05.09, 14:02:49
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Pagefile.sys - everything about the storagefile
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Title: Re: what is pagefile.sys will not open during virus scan
Post by: mmkhz on 21.05.09, 22:58:50
in fact when you find in report antivirus, warning about one file
or more ... say that files could not be opened. in this case you have to know this:

*- (MAYBE) there is trojan (http://www.computerhilfen.com/explanation-t-Trojan.html) in some place in  your pc generating
Boot Sector Viruses (it have 0 kb in size or less than, it
hide itself in the end of any HDD partition (http://www.computerhilfen.com/explanation-p-Partition.html) area).
these viruses in most, write on data of these files and to be
unreadable, and continue write on files
one by one until changing all HDD data and format to
become this format (RAW not (FAt (http://www.computerhilfen.com/explanation-f-FAT.html) Or NTFS)).

thus you can't run the Windows, (http://www.computerhilfen.com/explanation-w-Windows.html) and unable to format your HDD
(Locked). this situation driving to use (windows (http://www.computerhilfen.com/explanation-w-Windows.html) media center)
to be able to formating your HDD ...
   
anyway, whatever you must now using (RAM (http://www.computerhilfen.com/explanation-r-RAM.html) Cleaner) software (http://www.computerhilfen.com/explanation-s-Software.html) (use
google to find it), or, for safe take this advice [FORMAT YOUR
HARDDISK, AND MAKE NEW PARTITION, (http://www.computerhilfen.com/explanation-p-Partition.html) THEN INSTALL NEW WINDOWS, (http://www.computerhilfen.com/explanation-w-Windows.html) AND
POWERFULL ANTIVIRUS], after that, you can use and work on PC
safely.



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