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Why o Why….
When you do a search on your computer using Windows XP built in search mechanism, XP uses explorer.exe to execute your search. For some reason this process has a high priority thread setting and since searching is a reasonably intensive job it starts to use a lot of cpu time. But WTH! Does every thing else has to freeze because of that? Bill seems to say yes, I say NO Continue reading ‘Searching With WindowsXP’ »
How to ?
It’sz not that hard.
Download the command line scanner from avira and put it in your antivir directory. In WindowsLive Messenger go Extra->Options->File-transfers. scan your recieved files for virusses with the commandline scanner.
Point messenger to the command line scanner location.
in my case this was:
“C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic\avcls.exe” -s
put -s behind it. This is the commandline command to scan a file.
Now WLM will scan any incoming file with av and stop whinning about dangerous files.
[edit: it doesn't stop whinning, it just scans]
