aunty bob said:

> I need something where I can choose the app, extension, or whatever the
> hell the problem is, and then it will seek these problematic 
> opcodes/hex$
> or whatever

lars has written a tool like this -- see the shareware
section of staz's site.

--

from the results that you obtained with norton, it looks like
you have a corrupt block on your hard drive, and an error in
the FAT.

ideally you should do a lowlevel reformat of your drive so that
this block is marked as 'off limits' and then reinstall.

:-j