antivirus in safe mode

[electronicsfreak]

This is not a need help question, more of a question for discussion. I know very little about vista except what ive had to learn repairing other peoples computers locally. I ran into one thing to me seems insanely idiotic on vista.

From a recent experience I discovered you can not run an antivirus in vista directly from the hard drive. I asked a few friends who live in other states that use vista and both said you must have it installed on a jump drive or cd for it to run in safe mode.

This seems extremely dumb to me but maybe theres another reason that I dont know that caused them to do this.

Can anyone give me some knowledge on why this was done? Or was Microsoft hitting the crack pipe again like they were when they created millenium?

There is a point in wisdom and knowledge that when you reach it, you exceed what is considered possible - Jason Schoon

 

[smah]

After reading your post, I just rebooted into safe mode and set my Nod32 to scanning, which it did without any problems. The control panel caused an error, but the manual scan itself worked fine for me.

 

[ordisecours]

((IN XP ))I note too that some antivirus ((freedom and FSECURE)) in safe mode can't run too what a deal !!!



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[electronicsfreak]

Ok im puzzled now as when I tried it which actually was not me trying it, I was working on a friends computer that was oversees. Anyway it was not letting her scan, maybe she didnt have all the updates or something. That puzzles me and also makes me feel like an a-- lol. Computers are lovely sometimes lol

There is a point in wisdom and knowledge that when you reach it, you exceed what is considered possible - Jason Schoon

 

[linney]

AVG seems to run from Safe Mode, but was unable to read the MBR or Boot Sector, otherwise the scan engine was fully usable.

 

[electronicsfreak]

Well the antivirus we were using was antivir, I have never personally tried running it on vista as ive not had much experience with it. I was working on a computer through a friend since she was oversees in the uk lol.

There is a point in wisdom and knowledge that when you reach it, you exceed what is considered possible - Jason Schoon