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What's wrong? (Virus related)

#20414
From: Peace - No War!
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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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
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