Program runs on startup

[jrobinson]

For the past few days, whenever I boot my laptop it automatically opens McAfee Viruscan when Win98 starts. There's no shortcut in the Startup folder and I haven't changed anything in the Registry. It's not detecting a virus, it's as if I have clicked on the shortcut in Programs (but I haven't)

Any suggestions??

[Nick Wightkin]

the common places to find out what is being loaded is:

win.ini and system.ini
anything beginning with "load=" or "run="

or the Startup folder or

in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run and

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunServices

you will probably find that the virus scanner is in \RunServices

backup your registry and delete that...that should do it
-Nick

[jrobinson]

Nothing in win.ini or system.ini and searched the Registry under both of those keys and there's nothing there either

[alioops]

in the windows/system directory of win98 there is a little program called msconfig.
I have used this to disable mcafee, along with some other programs that boot during startup. it is a great little program to see what boots in a user friendly interface, but be careful! it can be dangerous too, so be careful of what you disable.

alicia

[jrobinson]

Scary! It just stopped happening.
Thanks for all the suggestions.