Subject:VST scanning is bringing all these .dll prcesses

Posted by: b4dawn

Date:10/31/2008 1:45:20 PM

I have narrowed it down to the VST scanning process that is bringing all this malware into itself.

Startup time has increased to about an hour and we are not done yet.

Is there a way to stop the vst scan process in any way but let it go through the whole process bringing all this garbage into AP7 for cleanup and removal later.

Should I unistall and reinstall?

Subject:RE: VST scanning is bringing all these .dll prcesses

Reply by: pwppch

Date:10/31/2008 1:49:50 PM

ACID defaults to the path defined here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VST

If this is empty or does not exist, then we default to program files/VSTPlugins

We scan what is in here. If you have stuff in here that loads up all of this, then we load it. There is nothing else we can do.

If you want to change this, then put in a different path and start ACID. You can then point ACID to other locations where you don't have things that load other things that you do not want loaded.

Peter

Subject:RE: VST scanning is bringing all these .dll prcesses

Reply by: b4dawn

Date:10/31/2008 3:39:01 PM

Understood, is there any way of stopping the scanner without starting AP7.

Subject:RE: VST scanning is bringing all these .dll prcesses

Reply by: pwppch

Date:10/31/2008 9:15:08 PM

No, the scan is automatic at start up.

Peter

Subject:RE: VST scanning is bringing all these .dll prcesses

Reply by: b4dawn

Date:10/31/2008 10:42:42 PM

I guess that trashes everything then.
Thanks for your help.