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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
- Lines: 75
-
- 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)
-