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Article #20414What's wrong? (Virus related)
From: Peace - No War!
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:03
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:03
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Hi everyone... I was doing my first scan using McAfee's SCAN 8.9V97 on my computer and this is what I found out : 1) Fresh from reboot, SCAN reported everything's fine with this message - > Scanning memory for critical viruses. > [Scanning 64K RAM - Scanning 1088K RAM] > Scanning for known viruses. > > Scanning Volume: MS-DOS_5 > [Scanning partition table of disk C: ....] .... 2) Then I rerun SCAN for the second time and this is what I got - > Scanning memory for critical viruses. > [Scanning 64K RAM - Scanning 1088K RAM] > Found the Filler [Filler] Virus active in memory. > > Power down the system immediately. > Reboot from a clean, write protected system diskette and then > re-run SCAN to determine extent of hard disk infection. What's wrong? I'm running Stacker 3.0 and using a Bernoulli Drive, a sound card and a CDROM. Here's the output of "mem /c" : > Conventional Memory : > > Name Size in Decimal Size in Hex > ------------- --------------------- ------------- > MSDOS 16960 ( 16.6K) 4240 > HIMEM 1072 ( 1.0K) 430 > EMM386 3232 ( 3.2K) CA0 > VSAFE 21008 ( 20.5K) 5210 > DD250 31824 ( 31.1K) 7C50 > COMMAND 2624 ( 2.6K) A40 > DOSKEY 4128 ( 4.0K) 1020 > MSCDEX 27952 ( 27.3K) 6D30 > FREE 64 ( 0.1K) 40 > FREE 546224 (533.4K) 855B0 > > Total FREE : 546288 (533.5K) > > Upper Memory : > > Name Size in Decimal Size in Hex > ------------- --------------------- ------------- > SYSTEM 167472 (163.5K) 28E30 > DOSOAD 17536 ( 17.1K) 4480 > SETVER 400 ( 0.4K) 190 > STACKER 51040 ( 49.8K) C760 > MVSOUND 10784 ( 10.5K) 2A20 > MOUSE 8816 ( 8.6K) 2270 > FREE 272 ( 0.3K) 110 > FREE 5648 ( 5.5K) 1610 > > Total FREE : 5920 ( 5.8K) > > Total bytes available to programs (Conventional+Upper) : 552208 (539.3K) > Largest executable program size : 545936 (533.1K) > Largest available upper memory block : 5648 ( 5.5K) > > 7340032 bytes total contiguous extended memory > 0 bytes available contiguous extended memory > 7053312 bytes available XMS memory > MS-DOS resident in High Memory Area Any help or responses are much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Andy (aong@mtu.edu)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!caen!mtu.edu!aong From: aong@mtu.edu (Peace - No War!) Subject: What's wrong? (Virus related) Message-ID: <1993Jan26.110345.9360@mtu.edu> Keywords: Filler, Virus, Stacker, SCAN Organization: Michigan Technological University Distribution: usa Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:03:45 GMT Lines: 75