Vista - F-secure and junction points

Hi!

I've got a problem with F-secure Client security and Vista junction points named application data. The virus scan gets stuck in these recursive folder structures or the scan takes ~6h.

The folder is: \\?\C:\Users\All Users\Application Data\ where Application data appears 14 times.

I've understood that this might be a problem with a particular anti-virus software but at F-secure they did not know about this problem. So, has anyone stumbled on this problem with F-sec or another anti-virus prog. and what has been your solution?

Furthermore, what is a correct number of recursive folders in this path? I'm thinking that there might be a program in my computer creating too many of these loops.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

WR, Mervi

Mervita,

If there are 14 different Application Data subfolders at
C:\Users\All Users then there may be some sort of file corruption going
on. Configure F-secure to not scan the folder since nothing can be
'stored' there anyway and see if that restores the one subfolder that
should be there


MowGreen [MVP 2003-2009]
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Mervita wrote:

I am not sure I understand what you mean by "recursive folders" but the
maximum size of a "path" is 260 (with some exceptions). In this context, a
path includes the filename. The following might be too technical for you but
it does provide all the details.

File Names, Paths, and Namespaces
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...um_path_length


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