I am running version 4.81368 and have my virus recovery database generator set to generate only when my screen saver is running, (which is not often.) I went ahead and selected the generate now button off the right click menu from the task bar. Another icon will come up and start spinning in my tray, but I can’t seem to be able to get a progress bar off of it.
How long does it take for this to generate the database? Will it tell me when it’s complete, and the most important thing is that I am on dial up, so do I need to be online to generate the database?
Personally, I’d disable it. It is only able to store information concerning a certain number of files in case of virus infection, and these days the number of times it might be able to save you from same would be a very low percentage, compared to when it was in it’s prime.
(Where it might be able to restore a clean version of an infected file, the “repair” option is available.)
Most infections these days are either so virulent, such as Virut/Vitro (polymorphic aggressive file infectors that pretty much destroy everything) or trojan/rootkit- based (the entire file is malicious, and no repair is possible) that having an up to date VRDB won’t help, I’m afraid.
