Thanks . . . I'll run another scan and see what it comes up with. It listed
the location of the files in a report after the scan. If they're that big of
a gulp, I'd like them out of there anyway. I just reformatted my hard drive
about a month ago so I'm surprised that this happened so fast.
--
Denise
~ If you don''t know where you came from, you won''t know where you''re going.
"Tony Sperling" wrote:
> No, I eat my words. I have CAB files on my HD's too, but I still think this
> is an issue of Avast not being able to resolve it's analysis of the file,
> which could mean that it is corrupt, but it may just trip on something
> because it's in an archived format.
>
> I would try and identify what app the file belongs to and whether or not you
> have that app currently installed or uninstalled, this will let you decide
> if you can delete it or copy/burn it to another medium and wipe it off the
> HD or leave it where it is. But I doubt it is serious. Avast simply fails to
> finish it's analysis of this file, and since it is an archive, you most
> likely will not need it or miss it - corrupt or not, deleted or left or
> whatever.
>
>
> Tony. . .
>
>
> "Denise" <> wrote in message
> news:258978EE-ADF0-4147-BFD5-...
> > Hi Tony . . . thanks for responding. I didn't have any CD's or DVD's in
> my
> > ROM drive when I ran the scan. I have installed programs/data from CD's
> and
> > DVD's but I remove the disks as soon as the installation is complete.
> >
> > Maybe I'm reading you wrong?
> > --
> > Denise
> >
> > ~ If you don't know where you came from, you won't know where you're
> going.
> >
> >
> > "Tony Sperling" wrote:
> >
> > > The *.CAB files are left on the CD/DVD after installation completes, I
> think
> > > Avast is having trouble analyzing the content from that disk, nothing
> save
> > > physical damage to the disk could corrupt your data there. The good
> reason
> > > to scan CD's is if you have compilations of more or less unknown origin,
> > > usually the process is lengthy, and official installation disks come
> with
> > > almost no risk, so I take those out when I make a scan.
> > >
> > > I would ignore this altogether.
> > >
> > >
> > > Tony. . .
> > >
> > >
> > > "Denise" <> wrote in message
> > > news:41BC3683-AC9B-49BD-857B-...
> > > > Hi, I have Windows XP Pro X64, SATA. I ran an Avast scan last night
> and
> > > one
> > > > of the findings was: "msi.dll - Unable to scan. CAB archive is
> > > corrupted."
> > > >
> > > > What can I do about this?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Denise
> > > >
> > > > ~ If you don't know where you came from, you won't know where you're
> > > going.
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
>
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