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Article #14095Re: Virus_Checker8.04
From: Philip Stokes
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 00:00
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robert mckenzie (robert@kenzie.demon.co.uk) wrote: > > Could one of you kind persons please help a humble man with a problem that I > am experiencing with Virus Checker 8.04 and memory usuage. > > I set the temp dir as work:Virus/VC and leave it empty as per the docs > suggestion and procede to scan my hard disk. The memory get used as a large > file is scanned and whereas in previous incarnations of this excellent program, > once the file was finished with the memory was freed, not so with this version. > > I am not sure if it is the virus checker program itself or do I have the temp > dir to a specific location. The last couple of versions of Virus_Checker had a buggy version of unpack.library in the archive. Replace it with an earlier version from a previous release and all should be fine. 40.57 works OK. > BTW Why does VC return the possible link virus for the game Worms and suggest > that I delete it. Strange. You'll find the answer in the .guide file under "Possible $4eb9 Link Virus" I believe. (d.i.s.a removed from follow-ups) Phil -- Philip Stokes phil@stokes.demon.co.uk Hertfordshire England
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f6f0c,606f08e5af9db9c X-Google-Attributes: gidf6f0c,public X-Google-Thread: 11015b,606f08e5af9db9c X-Google-Attributes: gid11015b,public X-Google-Thread: 1160fd,606f08e5af9db9c X-Google-Attributes: gid1160fd,public From: Philip Stokes <phil@stokes.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Virus_Checker8.04 Date: 1996/06/02 Message-ID: <9606022316.0dbw@stokes.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 158114586 x-nntp-posting-host: stokes.demon.co.uk references: <1186.6727T1187T2689@kenzie.demon.co.uk> followup-to: comp.sys.amiga.applications,demon.tech.amiga x-mail2news-path: disperse.demon.co.uk!post.demon.co.uk!stokes.demon.co.uk x-files: The truth is out there newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,demon.ip.support.amiga,demon.tech.amiga