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Hi
Hope someone can help.
I believe all my software is up to date.
When I run a complete scan using W7 security essentials in boot camp I get a Blue Screen.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Barry
iPhone 5, mountain lion APExtreme
Note that you may have problems if Microsoft Security Essentials (or any antivirus) tries to search viruses in the Mac OS X partition because Windows can't write on it. If this app tries to do anything in this partition, Windows may crash.
Instead of making a complete scan, run a custom scan by choosing only the Windows partition and not your OS X one
ok great, i'll try that
you aren't telling us enough, there is no reason unless there are errors.
Check the disk first with Propertites - hardware - for errors. Chkdsk is handy to run on next restart
Never seen a problem or scanning HFS. Maybe if you are using 3rd party driver to mount it which you don't mention so I doubt that is it.
what is HFS if you please?
HFS+ is the filesystem used by OS X. Windows can't read or write in volumes formatted in HFS by default, but when you install the Windows support software, a HFS+ read driver is installed to access to your OS X partition
So, then I shold not expect security essentials to work.
I see no reason that a scan should need to write to the OSX partition or indeed anywhere, it's just a scan afterall.
I'll look into the custom scan.
Thanks
Security essentials works fine on Windows 7 in a Bootcamp partition. Windows is completely separate from OSx and when you boot into Windows and run security essentials it has nothing to do with OSx.
You should try asking about security essentials and Windows 7 on a Windows forum.
Thanks, that makes sense, however I chose to ask the bootcamo camp first.
BArry
OK
I ran a scan disk on the partition and it ran cleanly to completion.
I then scanned only the bootcamp partition with security essentials. it ran cleanly.
I then selected my LaCie USB3 disk which is formatted in OSX mode. not NTFS. The scan failed with the BSOD stating that there was a Bad_Pool_Call.
So I'm happy to scan only the Bootcamp partition.
I'll raise this in the Windows support group, but I suspect they will say its a deficiency in the bootcamp interface modules. I can't help but agree.
Thanks to all for your constructive comments.
Barry
But wait there's more
I selected the Macintosh OSX disk and it scanned without causing the BSD.
So FWIW, I suspect the Windows BootCamp interface as the cause of the BSD.
$0.02
(an Apple issue)
Windows 7 crashes when scanning with security essentials in bootcamp
