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Getting "reading error" of boot sector of harddrive w/ AVG 7.1 virus scan -- ???

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Hi,

I just downloaded the newest updates for the free AVG anti-virus, etc. (7.1) and ran the scan for my harddrive. For some reason, in the second entry of the scan (which is for the boot sector of drive c, my harddrive), it says there was a reading error:

Object: Boot sector of disc C:
Result: Reading error
Status: Error

...however, there was never any error before I updated to 7.1 (though that could be a coincidence). Before, it would just say:

Object: Boot sector of disc C:
Result: Ok
Status: Quick checked

Why would this be? My computer boots up fine, so what does it mean that there's an error reading the boot sector? And is this something I can/should fix somehow?

I also have ZoneAlarm and am running Windows 98SE.

Any help is appreciated -- thanks! :)

-- bloomcounty
 
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MFDnSC said:
http://forum.grisoft.cz/freeforum/read.php?1,51882,51974#msg-51974

read through this thread there appears to be a workaround
Thanks for the link! But looking at that thread, I'm not sure what the reason is for needing a workaround? It says to just remove the boot scan thing from the choices of what's scanned. But all that really does is keeping that one thing from getting scanned, so it therefore doesn't show up as having an error as part of the complete scan, right? So, really, there's no difference between leaving it as it and having it read as an error or removing it and scanning without that part included -- right? The rest of the scan would be the same wouldn't it?

So, if that's the case, there's really no reason to remove it from the scan, is there?

(And someone did post that a fix was forthcoming, I guess...)

Let me know what you think -- thanks!

-- bloomcounty
 
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