EVENT ID 490

[vtrasikis]

For some reason I keep getting a lot:

Event Type:   Error
Event Source:   ESENT
Event Category:   General
Event ID:   490
Date:      3/16/2010
Time:      1:10:41 PM
User:      N/A
Computer:   NAUJAS
Description:
svchost (1200) An attempt to open the file "C:\WINDOWS\system32\CatRoot2\{F750E6C3-38EE-11D1-85E5-00C04FC295EE}\catdb" for read / write access failed with system error 32 (0x00000020): "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. ".  The open file operation will fail with error -1032 (0xfffffbf8).

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Any ideas what is causing this???

[Junkz]

"The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. ". 

There's your answer.

[JJ 3000]

What are you doing when you get that error?

[Allan]

"The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. ". 

There's your answer.

Ignore this post.

Run a full scan with both your AV and with MalwareBytes. You can also visit the malware section of this forum and follow the instructions at the top of that page.

[vtrasikis]

Ran a full scan and ran malewarebytes and both ran clean................

[patio]

An unfinished update and/or an aborted program install...

[vtrasikis]

well, no program installs done........ and I still haven't done the windows update, usually wait a week or so before doing it...