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by techrepublic

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I have a brand new Intel P3 733 Win98 workstation on which I have attempted to install Norton Antivirus 2000. (I was running Windows 98 second edition.)

Once installed, the system began hanging during boot-up. I eventually realised that it was stopping as soon as NAV started to scan the system files.

I un-installed it, reinstalled it, re-installed Windows 98se, downgraded to Windows 98 (1st edition), and eventually installed NAV v4 instead. At this point, everything seemed fine. However, as soon as I installed the latest virus definitions, it started to hang at startup again!

I run exactly the same software (same versions and virus definitions) on an older Pentium 233 with no problems at all.

I know I could go and get a different type of antivirus, or disable 'scan at startup', but does anyone have any other ideas?

By the way, the BIOS antivirus is disabled! - so no conflicts there then! (I've also tried setting the BIOS to default! - no luck there either!)

Help!

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by dmiles

You can disable the scan at start up,then you could also go to the microsoft knowledgebase and download the latest service pack then reinstall NAV.Hope this Helps

by ann777

I'd recommend that you totally start over. fdisk the drive and format it. then reload you os.

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