Hi, I am currently running Clamwin 0.87 and WinXP. Every time I do a manual scan on my "C:" drive it gets to somewhere in "documents and settings" and then just hangs there. I can leave it running for hours and it never ever gets past this point.

From memory I think that the last scanned files displayed are "C:\Documents and Settings\user\SendTo\....", it just cant seem to get past this point.

I have a few partitions on this hard drive and all the other partitions scan ok, it's only when scanning the system partition that Clamwin Hangs. Does anyone have any ideas on what could cause this? (C partition is only 8GB FAT32)

Just downloading version 0.88 now to test.

Yeah version 0.88 does exactly same thing. Here is the last thing displayed in the scanning Window before it hangs.



Any ideas ?

how long did you wait? It can take quite a while to scan single file if it is large (mailboxes, etc)

Thanks for the reply alch. Yes I wait hours and I'm certain it is completely hung as there is no disk activity. I do know what you mean about large files, I have observed that behaviour where it looks like progress has stopped but it's really just scannng a very long file. I've seen that on my other partitions were I have some large VOB files stored, but in this case I can clearly see that the hard drive is still working so I know it's not really hung-up.

My C drive is pretty clean, I've only got about 2.2Gig of used space on that partition! Additional my computer is very stable, it mostly runs for extended periods without any problems. I have also made surface scans etc of the hard-drive and ruled out any hardware problems.

I'm new here and I tried to do a bit of a search for similar issues but didn't find any exactly like this. Has anyone seen something like this before?

must be another cygwin issue. These issues will hopefully go away when we release native windows clamwin without cygwin compatibilty layer.

Ok I've finally got it fixed.

Since it seemed to be hanging while scanning system files and folders I was initially reluctant to play with it too much, like moving and deleting files or folders to try and pin-point which one was causing the problem. Anyway since there was no other way I logged in to Windows (xp-pro) as another admin user and starting knocking stuff out of my "documents and settings\user" folder until I could get it to complete a scan.

It turned out to be a zero length hidden/system file called "C:\Documents and Settings\user\recent.000". This file looked like something unimportant or temporary so I shift-deleted and now clamwin is working great.

I hope this info can help someone else. Unfortunately I'm not 100% sure that the file was called exactly "recent.000", it might have been "recent documents.000", it was definitely called "recent*" and the extension was definitely ".000". Sorry I would have paid more attention if I had known that this was going to be the file that fixed it, but while I was mostly just moving other files and folders this particular file looked so unimportant that I just shift-deleted it, so now I have no record of it to confirm any further details.