I was doing a test scan of ClamWin on a Vista laptop, and the scan aborted after trying to scan pagefile.sys (permission was denied, of course). Has anyone else had a problem with aborted scans on Vista when access is denied to a file? Scan log is below, and I was away from the machine at the time.

Regards,

Scan Started Wed Mar 04 09:55:45 2009
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C:\$Recycle.Bin\S-1-5-21-3464629227-1880226875-1392124353-1004\$R1UYPQI.gz: Trojan.IRCBot-3317 FOUND
C:\$Recycle.Bin\S-1-5-21-3464629227-1880226875-1392124353-1004\$RF4I6ZA.exe: Trojan.Agent-81100 FOUND
C:\$Recycle.Bin\S-1-5-21-3464629227-1880226875-1392124353-1004\$RJHB8BV.gz: Trojan.OnLineGames-1615.UNOFFICIAL FOUND
C:\$Recycle.Bin\S-1-5-21-3464629227-1880226875-1392124353-1004\$RJKV7UX.gz: Trojan.Agent-81100 FOUND
C:\pagefile.sys: Permission denied

Scanning aborted...

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 514752
Engine version: 0.94.1
Scanned directories: 5115
Scanned files: 17478
Infected files: 4
Data scanned: 4450.53 MB

Hello Bob,

Tested a full C: scan on my Vista SP1 laptop, was run as single user as well as with admin. privileges. In both cases scan was completed correctly and no 'permission denied' messages appeared. Clamwin is set with defaults, except for a list of file extensions i decided to skip to speed up scans.
Below the logs (file numbers differ as I was using laptop while scanning on second time):

Scan Started Wed Mar 04 20:36:55 2009
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----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 514168
Engine version: 0.94.1
Scanned directories: 19020
Scanned files: 20168
Infected files: 0
Data scanned: 9459.80 MB
Time: 4371.417 sec (72 m 51 s)

Scan Started Wed Mar 04 21:58:21 2009
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----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 514168
Engine version: 0.94.1
Scanned directories: 19281
Scanned files: 20231
Infected files: 0
Data scanned: 9516.47 MB
Time: 5706.490 sec (95 m 6 s)

Regards,
Antonio

Well, I guess I'll put it down as "one of those things" unless it keeps happening. Should have retried it, I guess, but I was in a hurry. It sure takes longer for a Vista scan than an XP scan doesn't it? Guess it's all those Vista Dlls.

Regards

Hello Bob,

Absolutely true. Scans on Vista take me almost double the time needed to scan the XP machine (note that on Vista I have set my application set to the minimum).

Regards,
Antonio