Multiple Operating Systems
I currently run a system that includes 3 different MS Operating Systems. On my C: drive (physical) is Windows 2000 Pro, on my D: drive (partition 1 of 2nd physical drive) is Windows XP Pro, and on my E: drive (partition 2 of 2nd physical drive) is Windows 98SE. My default operating system is WinXP.
I am having a problem with a certain virus that continues to spawn - a Trojan Dropper (sorry, I don't recall the name off-hand as I'm not on my home PC at the moment). The AV that I'm running tells me that it's on the system but whenever I run a scan, it is unable to locate it. Feeling that it might be a registry problem, I downloaded an anti-ad/spyware program and installed it on WinXP, only to find that it consistently scan the wrong registry. It scans the Win2000 registry and naturally, since the virus is NOT on that OS, it cannot find it, nor can it find anything related to XP. I'm at a loss as to what to do. I've tried following the technical support recommendation that the same program be installed on all operating systems but it still doesn't work. The same registry is scanned each and everytime, no matter which OS I'm currently running. That's well and good if I happen to be using Win2K but does me absolutely no good should I be running one of the others. Any suggestions about how I might get around this problem and scan the correct registry?